

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Bringing Digital Empathy to Conversational AI Agents
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: BostonCHI in partnership  with NU Center for Design at CAMD presents a hybrid talk by Javier Hernandez, Microsoft ResearchAbout this EventBringing Digital Empathy to Conversational AI AgentsEmpathy is central to everyday interactions and enables stronger collaboration, leadership, and communication. Extending this human capacity to conversational AI can raise engagement and satisfaction, but it also brings risks such as dependency and overreliance. This talk shares recent efforts at Microsoft Research to map the many forms of digital empathy and highlights the opportunities and challenges of building it into conversational agents.About our speakerJavier Hernandez is a Principal Researcher in the Interactive Multimodal Futures group at Microsoft Research and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing journal. Javier's research focuses on how future AI agents can collaborate effectively by understanding users more deeply and adapting to their context. Before Microsoft, he was a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where he earned his Ph.D. in the Affective Computing group. His work, spanning mental health support, emotion-aware technology, and user-centered AI, has received multiple best paper awards and has been featured in National Geographic and The Economists.Naviagation: Enter the building through this gate and take left.Nearest T station is Ruggles on Orange line and Northeastern University on Green line  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/97535e10-00e5-11f1-8962-d7e3632ff2c2-rimg-w564-h740-dca5acbc-gmir.jpg   https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/9782ab70-00e5-11f1-853c-45a011bf13b5-rimg-w1189-h740-dc626575-gmir.jpg Agenda?: 06:00 AM - 06:30 PMConnect &amp; Share: Pizza and Networking with BostonHCI Community?: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PMSpeaker's Talk?: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PMQ&amp;A and post event networking
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Boston
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD)
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- **full address**: Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD), 11 Leon Street, Boston, United States

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- **organizer**: BostonCHI (https://allevents.in/org/bostonchi/22910695)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD), 11 Leon Street, Boston, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** BostonCHI
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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