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Necessity of Establishing New Concept of Empathy Across Metaverse for AI Era

AI시대, 메타버스를 아우르는 새로운 공감개념 필요성에 대한 담론

  • Received : 2021.05.01
  • Accepted : 2021.06.10
  • Published : 2021.06.20
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Abstract

Currently, for teenagers, the metaverse is becoming an important space for communication and experience. Due to the development of AI technology, experiences in the metaverse space are diversifying, which means that experiences in the virtual world can affect the real self. Therefore, this study attempted to examine the necessity of establishing a new concept of empathy across the metaverse for the AI era. In accordance with literature studies related to empathy, one was confirmed that the concept of empathy has been changing according to social ideas in times. In addition, with the result of the analysis of recent research trends, it was considered that the current study of empathy is generally taking a view as a measure of 'upright sociality.' In the end, this study suggest the necessity of redefined empathy in order to cultivate upright sociality in the metaverse.

현재 10대들을 중심으로 메타버스는 소통과 경험의 공간이 되고 있다. AI기술의 발달은 메타버스 공간에서의 체험을 다양화함으로써, 가상세계에서의 경험이 현실의 자아에까지도 영향을 줄 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 AI시대, 메타버스를 아우르는 새로운 공감개념 정립의 필요성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 공감관련 문헌연구를 통해 공감의 개념이 시대가 추구하는 바에 따라 변화해왔음을 확인하며, 공감의 개념이란 필요에 의해 새롭게 정의될 수 있다는 근거를 얻었다. 또한 최근 국내외 연구 동향분석을 통해 현재 공감은 대체로 올바른 사회성에 대한 하나의 척도로써 바라보는 관점을 취하고 있음을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 연구내용을 종합하며, 올바른 사회성 함양을 위한 해결책으로써 의미를 가진 공감이 메타버스 속에서 일어나는 사회적 관계를 아우르는 시각아래 새롭게 정의될 필요성을 강조하였다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017S1A6A3A01078538)

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