Empathy-Based Veterinary Engineering Framework (EBVEF)

Abstract

Joie Lamar’s Empathy-Based Veterinary Engineering Framework connects technology design, ethics, and policy to make empathy an actionable principle in veterinary engineering. It comprises four interdependent pillars: Ethical Design Ontology; Multi-Species Participatory Design; Empathic Metrics and Evaluation; and Institutional Implementation and Policy Integration. The framework draws on bioethical and virtue ethics, systems and posthumanist ethics, and participatory design and slow technology. A conceptual welfare-monitoring application illustrates its proposed use. Empirical implementation, measurement, and validation remain areas for future research.

This abstract summarises the author-supplied conceptual paper. The website edition includes its full text and references, a cover, and a diagram.

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Suggested citation

Lamar, J. (2026). Empathy-Based Veterinary Engineering Framework (EBVEF) [White paper, website edition]. DrOfWhat. https://drofwhat.ca/publications/ebvef-white-paper/

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