About the Journal

Aims

 

Empathic Computing is a rapidly emerging field of computing concerned with how to create computer systems that better enable people to understand one another and develop empathy. This includes the use of technology such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to enable people to see what another person is seeing in real time, and overlay communication cues on their field of view. Also, the use of physiological sensors, machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop systems that can recognize what people are feeling and convey emotional or cognitive state to a collaborator. The goal is to combine natural collaboration, implicit understanding, and experience capture/sharing in a way that transforms collaboration.

 

Scope

 

Subject areas include but are not limited to:

collaborative AR/VR/MR experiences

using sensors for emotion recognition and sharing

capture and sharing of real environments

machine learning and AI methods for emotion recognition

novel collaborative interfaces

models of emotion and empathy

collaborative systems that recognize and respond to emotional state

evaluation methods for empathic computing

models of communication and collaboration

technology for conveying emotion and empathy

definitions and taxonomy of AR/VR/XR and Empathic Systems

Literature review and scoping studies

other related topics