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Symposium: Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy, 21 March at the RSA

Posted on Friday 4 March 2016 by Kaisa

The project CEDE is about researching empathy in digital environments, and prototyping devices and services that are designed to facilitate empathy between people. We are organising a one day Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy symposium on Monday 21 March at the Royal Society for the Arts in London, where the project […]

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Conferences, Digital Empathy, Emotion, Interactive Installation, Voight-Kampff

4Candles Prayer system upgrade at St Michael’s church in Hawkshead

Posted on Wednesday 13 January 2016 by

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, we replaced the hardware that was running the digital 4Candles prayer system in St Michael’s church in Hawkshead. One of the reasons for the system upgrade was to attempt to improve and/or deal with poor network connectivity that the system relies so heavily […]

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Digital Empathy, Interactive Installation, internet of things

Making expressions of empathy visible

Posted on Friday 20 November 2015 by Kaisa

Recently we visited the St Peter’s church in Hackney to check up on the digital prayer installation they have been using at the church for the past few months. It was shortly after the 13 November 2015 attack in Paris that shocked people across the world, so we were not […]

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Interactive Installation

Praying in the digital age: Prayer installations in Hawkshead and Hackney

Posted on Monday 2 November 2015 by Kaisa

The digital prayer installations have been in use since July at St Michael’s church in Hawkshead, Cumbria, and at St Peter’s church in Hackney, London. These churches were chosen for the pilot project for their contrasting locations and different types of church communities: St Michael’s is in rural Lake District […]

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Digital Empathy, Interactive Installation

Mood-controlled Light

Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2014 by Panos

Mood Lights from Panos Mavros on Vimeo. So, we wondered, what would be the effects of controlling the ambient lighting of a room using our own – or others’– mood state? What if my friends, family or coworkers could “see” how I am feeling in real-time? What if we could […]

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Digital Empathy, Emotion, Emotion regulation, Interactive Installation, Psychology

Mediating Emotion

Posted on Thursday 31 October 2013 by Panos

Everyday life is full of emotion. We react to situations, conversations, sudden events and elements of our environment in affective ways. As the Neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio complellingly argued[1], emotions, such as pleasure and preference, are intrinsic aspects of making decisions, from the mundane to the extraordinary. Above all, however emotion […]

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Digital Empathy, Emotion, Interactive Installation, Physical Computing