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Vol-4221
urn:nbn:de:0074-4221-x

Copyright © 2026 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2026 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

EmpathiCH 2026

Proceedings of the 4th EmpathiCH Workshop, (Re-)Thinking Empathy's Materiality in HCI
co-located with CHI'26

Barcelona, Spain, April, 14, 2026.

Edited by

Sophia Ppali
Mireia Yurrita
Alice Vitali
Alok Debnath
Lucie Flek
Andrea Cuadra
Sven Mayer
Michal Lahav
Tiffanie Horne
Aneesha Singh
Giulia Barbareschi
Andrea Mauri
Himanshu Verma

Table of Contents

Embodiment as Sociomaterial Factor in Empathic Agent PDF
Matthias Schmidmaier, Sven Mayer
No Hard Feelings: The Protective Power of AI Empathy During Interaction Failures PDF
Fotis Efthymiou, Alex Mari, Ertugrul Uysal, Jeffrey Brook
Processed Empathy: How AI "Social Zombies" Hijack Human Vulnerability PDF
Ciarán O'Driscoll, Martin Dechant
From Imagination to Simulation: How Conversational AI Reconfigures the Fantasy Dimension of Cognitive Empathy PDF
Alina A. Karl
The Aesthetics of Friction: Designing Empathic Technologies for Reflective Behavior Change PDF
Till Maria Jürgens, Matthias Laschke
Silent Connection: Silence as Empathic Care in Conversational AI Design PDF
Melika Vafafar, Sian Joel-Edgar, Hossein Dabbagh, Chee Siang Ang, Casper Harteveld
Stop Mimicking Human Empathy: Designing Empathy as a Mediated, Bounded, and Relational Characteristic of an AI Companion for Emergency Departments PDF
Jacobe Klein, Peter Sörries, Yasemin Mutlugil, Claudia Müller-Birn
A Sociomaterial Reframing of Empathy in Conversational Virtual Humans PDF
Anna Xygkou-Tsiamoulou, Alexandra Covaci, Jim Ang
Affective Touch: Exploring Empathic Communication with Visually Impaired Children PDF
Lena M. Nischwitz, Philipp S. Fabritius, Giuseppe Sanseverino, Lewis L. Chuang
Provocations for Empathy-Centric Design in End-of-Life Planning PDF
Ramprabu Thangaraj, Alisha Pradhan
Simulating the Illegible and Diffuse: A Weird XR for Materialising Empathy Without Essentializing Embodied Experiences of Discrimination PDF
Julia Himmelsbach, Lukas Kröninger, Diotima Bertel
Empathy Beyond Accuracy: Reinterpreting User Understanding in the Age of Large Language Model PDF
Jie Li, Katja Hölttä-Otto
Learning Experiences and the Emotions That Shape Student Learning PDF
Carina Ziegler, Isa Jahnke
Mental Health Chatbots: Effects of Empathic Tone on Perceived Empathy and Trust PDF
Mojgan Moshirpour, Mohammad Moshirpour, Qiao Sun
User-Led Storytelling with Generative AI Artifacts to Promote Empathic Design PDF
Tony W. Li, Steven P. Dow
emPLANThy: Exploring Interactive Plants for Neurodiverse Empathic Experiences PDF
Diana Pimentel, Isabel Neto, Tiago Guerreiro
Rehearsal For Ageing: Reimagining Empathy through Ageing Preparation Using An Augmented Reality Visual Impairment Simulation PDF
Ximing Shen, Giulia Barbareschi, Chihiro Sato, Kouta Minamizawa
From Galleries to Generators: Applying Museum Empathetic Strategies to Reduce Confirmation Bias in Chatbots PDF
Cassandra Kist
Prioritizing Therapeutic Alignment Over Simulated Artificial Intelligence Empathy PDF
Soraya S Anvari, Rina R Wehbe
Empathy at the Boundary: Sustainable HCI Research Practice in Sensitive Contexts PDF
Annalisa Degenhard, Jennifer Spohrs, Stefan Tschoeke, Enrico Rukzio
Who Cares? Rethinking Empathy in Chatbot Interaction PDF
Boyd Branch, Alexandra Covaci

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