SYMPOSIUM: XR Access 2020

研讨会：XR Access 2020

• 批准号: 2027764
• 负责人: Shiri Azenkot
• 金额: $ 4.71万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SYMPOSIUM; XR; Access; 2020

The XR Access 2020 Symposium will convene researchers and other stakeholders in the area of accessibility and XR to share research and devise a plan for making these technologies accessible to persons with disabilities. This funding will support attendees from academic institutions and nonprofit groups whose work touches accessibility and XR (collectively mixed, augmented, virtual, and extended reality, and 360 video). This year's event, to be held at Cornell Tech's Verizon Executive Education Center in New York City on July 20-21, builds on work begun at the 2019 Symposium that brought together over 120 researchers, advocates, and industry leaders to discuss the state of XR accessibility and plan for a more accessible future. The scope of the 2020 Symposium spans the content creation, software development, and hardware aspects of the XR industry, and it is a key aspect of the XR Access Initiative which aims to address the needs of users with speech, motor, vision, hearing and age-related impairments, with cognitive limitations, and with emotional and learning disabilities. There are currently 27 million Americans with low vision, 41 million who are Deaf or hard of hearing, and 18 million with limited mobility. For many of these people, using XR devices and consuming XR content is not possible. The research, design, and advocacy needed to include these users in the 18-billion-dollar XR market is still nascent. This Symposium will have broad impact by catalyzing new research into the specific mechanisms for improving XR accessibility. It will also serve to connect scientists to advocates, educators, and business leaders to ensure that advances in the science of accessibility are implemented with input from people with disabilities and are viable at scale. Persons with disabilities from academia and nonprofits will be encouraged to attend, because no conversation about increasing accessibility in technology can go forward in a meaningful manner without including disability advocates and users with disabilities at the table from the beginning.XR technologies are on the cusp of becoming mainstream. They will soon reshape the way we work, learn and play. However, today XR technologies are not accessible to the millions of people with disabilities around the world. By their nature, they introduce a completely new set of challenges for people whose abilities are not typically considered in the technology design process. The Symposium will stimulate discussion and collaborative research to address questions such as:- How can people with different perceptual abilities experience XR applications?- How should XR hardware be designed to consider the needs of people with different abilities?- What accessibility features can enhance immersion, enjoyment, and learning through XR for all users?The Symposium will also address deeper questions about the nature and future of accessibility for emerging technologies more broadly. Unlike prior work that develops assistive technology in XR to support people with disabilities, the Symposium aims to foster research that makes XR technologies themselves accessible. To ensure the impact of the research begun at the Symposium, the event's agenda will include meetings of cross-industry working groups, each focusing on increasing the XR Access Initiative's impact in a specific area. The Guidelines and Practices group will synthesize existing accessibility policies and practices in the XR space, and create new ones that are applicable to other emerging technologies. Similarly, the Outreach group will focus on creating strategies for bringing awareness of the need for XR accessibility to key corporate stakeholders and to the general public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

XR Access 2020研讨会将在可访问性领域和XR领域召集研究人员和其他利益相关者，以共享研究并制定计划，以使残疾人可以使用这些技术。 这笔资金将支持来自学术机构和非营利组织的参与者，他们的工作涉及可访问性和XR（共同混合，增强，虚拟和扩展现实以及360视频）。 今年的活动将于7月20日至21日在康奈尔理工大学在纽约市的Verizon高管教育中心举行，其基础是在2019年研讨会上进行的工作，该研讨会汇集了120多名研究人员，倡导者和行业领导者，讨论XR可访问性的状况和计划，以实现更可访问的未来。 2020年座谈会的范围涵盖了XR行业的内容创建，软件开发和硬件方面，它是XR Access计划的关键方面，旨在满足用户的需求，具有语音，运动，视力，听力和年龄相关的障碍，具有认知局限性以及具有情感和学习障碍。 目前，有2700万美国人有低见的美国人，4100万人聋哑或听力难，有1800万人行动能力有限。 对于许多人来说，不可能使用XR设备和消耗XR内容。 需要将这些用户包括在18亿美元的XR市场中的研究，设计和倡导仍然是偏生的。 该研讨会将通过促进提高XR可访问性的特定机制的新研究来产生广泛的影响。 它还将有助于将科学家与倡导者，教育者和商业领袖联系起来，以确保通过残疾人的意见来实施可访问性科学的进步，并且在大规模上可行。 鼓励学术界和非营利组织的残疾人参加，因为没有关于技术可及性的交谈可以以有意义的方式进行，而不必从一开始就包括残疾人倡导者和残疾用户。他们很快将重塑我们的工作，学习和玩耍的方式。 但是，如今，全球数百万残疾人无法使用XR技术。 从本质上讲，他们为技术设计过程中通常不考虑能力的人们引入了一系列全新的挑战。 座谈会将刺激讨论和协作研究，以解决以下问题： - 具有不同知觉能力的人如何经历XR应用？ - 如何设计XR硬件来考虑具有不同能力的人的需求？ - 哪些可访问性功能可以增强immersion，享受，享受和通过XR的学习来为所有用户学习吗？还可以对介绍性进行更多的访问性，以解决更多的问题，以便对自然和未来的范围进行更深入的问题。 与先前在XR中开发辅助技术以支持残疾人的工作不同，该研讨会旨在促进使XR Technologies本身访问的研究。 为了确保研究开始于研讨会的影响，该活动的议程将包括跨行业工作组的会议，每个工作组都着重于增加XR访问计划在特定领域的影响。该准则和实践小组将在XR领域综合现有的可访问性策略和实践，并创建适用于其他新兴技术的新产品。 同样，外展小组将着重于制定策略，以使人们认识到对XR可访问性的需求，并向公众开展公众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响标准来评估的支持。