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Challenges to Teaching Empathy in Design

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Advances in Design for Inclusion (AHFE 2017)

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This paper will discuss some of the challenges of teaching students to build empathy and learning how to utilize it within a design project. It will discuss challenges encountered within two college level classes: an industrial design studio and in a class on human factors and ergonomics. Two project examples will be presented for the studio, a universal design project and a project to design an assistive device. An example of an empathy activity used in the lecture based human factors class is presented.

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The contents of this paper were developed in part under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90RE5007-01-00). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this paper do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, 245 4th Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Young Mi Choi

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio”Chiet-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. EIDD - Design for All Europe, Oliveto Lario, Italy

    Pete F Kercher

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Choi, Y.M. (2018). Challenges to Teaching Empathy in Design. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_1

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