Empathy wall

Abstract

Empathy Wall is a work that starts with the question of whether when human-to-person communication is applied to human-to-technical communication, it can produce feelings close to the "sympathy" that occur between people. Empathy Wall wanted to develop human-to-human communication into human-to-object communication using the latest IT technology, and we wanted to expand this into empathy and familiarity between technology and humans. In other words, through the work of art called Empathy Wall, we are trying to extend human-to-human consensus to human-to-technical consensus formation. In the Empathy Wall, the two audiences in each room divided by walls cannot see each other, and an image appears on the wall. The two audiences are given the same subject and question, and if they talk about it freely, their emotions will be analyzed through AI algorithms according to the story, and images based on Kandinsky's theoretical rules will appear on the screen. At this time, the images from the emotional analysis of the stories of the two audiences are all mixed and appear on the walls of the room. Through this process, the audience will be able to see images automatically generated regardless of their own story being expressed on the same screen, in addition to images that respond to their stories. At this time, you can think of images as images of audiences in other rooms, or you can think that the walls themselves create images. During the experience of the Empathy Wall, the audience can feel emotions by looking at images that respond to their stories, and can feel emotions with other audiences as they automatically appear and mix with their own images regardless of their own stories, and furthermore, people and walls can feel empathy.