The Complex Relationship Between Empathy, Engagement and Boredom
Witchel, Harry J., Santos, Carlos P., Ackah, James K., Tee, Julian, CHOCKALINGAM, Nachiappan and Westling, Carina E.I. (2016) The Complex Relationship Between Empathy, Engagement and Boredom. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics.
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In human computer interactions --- especially gaming --- the role of empathy has been mooted as a necessary prerequisite for higher levels of engagement and immersion. More recently other forms of engagement, including intellectual/cognitive engagement, have been proposed. In this study we present a carefully controlled dataset of human-computer interactions with a wide range of stimuli that ranged from highly engaging to boring to test these two theories. Analyzing 844 response sets to visual analogue scales (VAS) for empathy, interest, boredom, and engagement, we found that high empathy was sufficient for high engagement but is not necessary, whilst the converse was not true. We also found that empathy and boredom were incompatible with each other, but low levels of either were permissive rather than causal to the other. We conclude that there is no monotonic relationship between increasing empathy and engagement; either empathy is a sufficient (but not necessary) cause of engagement, or engagement is a necessary precursor to high empathy.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Engagement, boredom, empathy, interest. |
Faculty: | School of Life Sciences and Education > Sport and Exercise |
Event Title: | Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics |
Depositing User: | Nachiappan CHOCKALINGAM |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2017 08:37 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 13:44 |
URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/2668 |
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