The 2025 International Conference on Extended Reality (ICXR 2025) was recently held in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. At the conference, Prof. Mark Billinghurst, from the University of South Australia and the University of Auckland, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Empathic Computing (EC), delivered a keynote speech titled “Research Directions in Empathic Computing: Creating Next Generation Collaborative Systems.”

Science Exploration Press is pleased to officially announce the launch of Empathic Computing (EC), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to playing a key role in showcasing the best research in Empathic Computing and in shaping how people connect with one another in the future. We are honored to have Prof. Mark Billinghurst serve as the Founding Editor-in-Chief.