The Promise of Empathy Design Disability and Knowing the Other

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The Promise of Empathy: Design, Disability, and Knowing the 'Other' • Cynthia L. Bennett, Daniela K. Rosner • CHI '19: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems • Session: Social Justice 2 • Abstract • This paper examines the promise of empathy, the name commonly given to the initial phase of the human-centered design process in which designers seek to understand their intended users in order to inform technology development. By analyzing popular empathy activities aimed at understanding people with disabilities, we examine the ways empathy works to both powerfully and problematically align designers with the values of people who may use their products. Drawing on disability studies and feminist theorizing, we describe how acts of empathy building may further distance people with disabilities from the processes designers intend to draw them into. We end by reimagining empathy as guided by the lived experiences of people with disabilities who are traditionally positioned as those to be empathized. • DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300528 • WEB:: https://chi2019.acm.org/ • Recorded at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, May 4 - 9 2019

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