Creative Scholarship: Part I Emotional Character
6 participants from with completely different backgrounds were interviewed regarding questions in 4 sections: social media, love, fear, and their inner-selves. There are six series of illustrations, each series contained a portrayal of the participants and four emotional characters.
According to evaluation and researches, I found that emotional empathy directly connects to the feelings of others on an emotional level. Attention and memory play an important role in decoding information to trigger responses to emotional sources. Moreover, compared to emotional empathy, cognitive empathy is quite rational based on personal conceptions. The focus of cognitive empathy could also be very narrow on a specific target. The emotional characters are presenting results in visuals, having a hope that they could evoke more thoughts about improving design empathy throughout our emotional realities.
