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Empathy is an essential feeling one must have to try and better understand others perspectives. Without this we will feel disconnected from the topic at hand thus creating a gap between us the viewer and they the victim. When telling a story or writing a paper we must use compelling evidence or plot lines that make us empathize or even sympathize with the character or people in our world.

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I now see how much of an effect the interview has on our research. To be able to get insight for what its like to be on the front lines and how they are working to find solutions to problems across LA everyday will allow for us to see what its really like to not only step in their shoes, but also the people who are being affected by the problem

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I know am able to truly understand the difference between empathy and sympathy. Empathy is very important when we have to understand someone else's life. Walking in someone else's shoes lets us know the situation. The videos were thorough.

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When presented a problem in the real world you want to be able to empathize with said person to be able to think about a solution. Instead of just doing the first step and empathizing, you need to be able to give an actual solution not just an "oh that sucks".

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I understand better now the difference between sympathy and empathy and how empathy is much important in our situation where we have the understand someone's else life and their issues in their own perspective.

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After the videos, I now understand the importance of the interview more. Before, I didn't understand AS MUCH the difference between the importance of the article and the importance of the interview, but after this it is more clear to me how effective an interview can be, as it gives us that real life example where it will be easier to step into their shoes.

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I thought the analogy of offering a sandwich to someone who is going through tough times was a good way to show how people think they are helping but not offering any actually help.
-Osric V

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We want to use observation when desiging our project. Interview people, to be able to understand their persepctie or situation. This data will help our project be successful. Something I also learned was that empathy is being able to understand others feelings or situation.

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The videos really explained the differences between sympathy and empathy. It also explains the importance of empathy, in terms of putting yourself in other people's shoes to really understand their situation.

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I was realizing the great importance of conducting interviews because it allows the interviewer to gather lots of quality data.

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An epiphany I had was realizing the importance of us doing interviews. It is to collect quantitative and qualitative data to connect with others.
-Eva D

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Empathy is a word used to learn/understand others' perspective and there problems/situations. It can also be used to have a deeper connection w/ the person you are talking to.

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I think that empathy helps one who'd onset deal with the problem understand the topic, and how it affects others.

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Empathy is important because it allows us to see things in other people’s perspectives. If you use empathy you can see how something might effect someone in a different way compared to you. This can help in making right decisions because if you use empathy you will be able to see how it may effect other people differently.

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Empathy is a powerful tool for us to fully understand and fully realize the struggles of other people. Its a way of connecting deeper and relating to someone on a human level

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I believe using empathy to understand a problem that might not envolve you is very important to see how big this problem can effect others. My problem is police and the mentally ill, I can only imagine how scared I would be if I had a mental breakdown in public and the cops were after me, I'd be scared for my life. It makes me think more heavily on this topic.

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The animated video was helpful to understand the connections in empathy. The 2nd video stressed the need to empathize in a pure way, without letting bias get in the way of connecting. I thought this quote was a good thing to putforth about design thinking, "We need to spend time with the people... if we are designing for them."

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I've thought of things since the two videos, as I've wondered if I symphatized or emphatized with others. I feel unsure if I really understand others or just being there.

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The first epiphany I had was during the second video. I know understand why we are required to complete interviews...they are needed in order to empathize or CONNECT with those suffering from the problem my group is researching. All in all, I think that the animated video was very helpful in understanding empathy because it can be easy to mix up the two concepts.

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Empathy is when you relate to how someones feeling and understand. while sympathy is just feeling sorry that they're feeling the way they are. I think having empathy is dramatically more helpful than sympathy. They feel not alone in the situation. Sympathy could maybe even make someone feel worse as if they are dealing with it all alone.

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I realized from watched the animated video that empathy offers a deeper connection to an issue that I initially thought. Empathy being described as taking my own experienced emotions and connecting them to the emotions felt by who I am trying to help was beneficial for my understanding of the empathy phase as a whole.

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Throughout watching these two videos, I was able to get a better understanding of empathy, and how it is different from sympathy. In the animated video, in the beginning, the narrator says, "empathy fuels connection, sympathy drives disconnection". This saying has helped me better distinguish the two. Empathy is getting on the same level and trying to understand and connect with someone on a similar level, what they're going through.

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I began to understand empathy a lot more throughout the animated video. The narrator brought It all together when she said that empathy is connecting with how someone else is feeling through something that has made you feel the same way. It is better to connect and relate than it is to feel bad for how someone feels in that moment.

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I enjoyed watching the animated video with the bear and the fox. The video displayed what empathy truly is in contrast to sympathy. I had an epiphany when I realized that empathy is when one does not only understand how someone is feeling, but put themselves in their shoes as well. In contrast, sympathy is understanding how someone feels, but they may not fully understand what it is like to actually be them.

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The videos were very well made and helped explain empathy in a simple way to understand. You need to have actual connections with people to actually have a sense of "feeling bad" for them. Having the sense of gone through an event which other people have gone through as well helps you get a better perspective of what people are going through.

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In this stage of design thinking, it's easy to get lost in the collection of data and facts. We can often forget the emotion and needs behind the whole purpose of this project if we forget that we are trying to help actual human beings. We have to show empathy and actually care in order for our help to be authentic, rather than being sympathetic where we understand the problem. Whereas empathy allows us to experience others emotions in a more first-hand perspective rather than an outside perspective.
-Alyssa Lugo

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I thought the animated video did a good job of explaining empathy, and why it is a good word to describe this project, as without empathy, it is impossible to do this project to the best of your ability, and may come across as not fully genuine.

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the video was short which is something I like because videos that over explain or are too long just lose the viewers attention to me but the video shows how easy and quickly someone can get lost with the load of information you can find when doing a research project. My thoughts after watching the video is with empathy we need to have a true actual connect with the topic (people) and just not "feel bad" for them because of the events going on for them

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I liked how the animated video displays the difference between empathy and sympathy. My learning helped me put myself in others shoes to help realize their situation. I share their feelings to make sure I understand what they're going through.

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I liked the way the video was able to use animations to demonstrate empathy in an observable way. The video sort of shows sympathy as simply feeling bad for somebody, where empathy is actually putting yourself in another persons shoes. I sympathetic approach to my problem (homelessness) would be to simply view the situation as very unfortunate. A more empathetic approach to viewing my problem would be to actually view myself in that situation.
-Danny Korfist

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The two videos relates back to our senior project because it's empathy we're portraying not sympathy, which are two completely different things. Empathy is feeling a connection to something or someone and understanding what that someone is going through rather then just feeling bad for them and not really feeling that emotional connection and understanding of them (sympathy).

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If I were to put myself in the shoes of the people affected by my problem (wildfires) If my house burnt down, what would be the very first thing that comes to mind, or what is the very first thing that I would have to do?

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I could make a connection of the two videos and our senior projects because within our projects we need to be able to empathize rather than sympathize. For our projects we have to be able to engage on a whole different level. Lots of my thoughts may have been surface level, but in order to pass the empathize stage in our designed thinking we need to look further and connect on a deeper level.

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The first (animated) video really made me realize that, at least in my experience with this project so far, that it's easy to get lost in the research/information and forget that real people are being affected by these issues on the daily. I have to remember that the best solution to any design thinking challenge is one that benefits those affected first and foremost, aside from whatever biases I have going in.
As with the second video, it's important to remember that our solutions are designed to improve situations for real people in Los Angeles, and that we have to have compassion and empathy in order to create these solutions.

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I thought that the videos did a good job of illustrating the difference between feeling sympathetic and empathetic towards others. Sympathy is almost like telling a person who's going through dark times "wow that sucks hope it gets better," sympathy also uses silver linings to down play the issue affecting the person. On the other hand empathy is understanding the persons problem, putting yourself in their shoes, and helping them find a solution.

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I really like how in the animated video the narrator phrases empathy as feeling with someone, and how she said that an empathetic response shouldn't start with "at least." Bringing a silver lining into someone's situation may make them feel invalidated