Towards an Equitable Social VR

迈向公平的社交 VR

• 批准号: EP/W025698/1
• 负责人: Vanja Garaj
• 金额: $ 77.68万
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW025698%2F1
• 关键词: Towards; Equitable; Social; VR

Towards an Equitable Social VRSocial Virtual Reality (SVR) constructs a digital parallel to the physical world, enabling remote social engagement mediated by modern immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology. This social engagement is not strictly limited to conventional social interaction, but has also recently expanded to include activities such as remote participation in training, work, and service delivery. This digital parallel world offers significant opportunities for greater inclusion of individuals who are currently marginalised by the physical world, thereby widening access to the Digital Economy. SVR is a rapidly emerging technology and its pace of adoption has accelerated in the global pandemic. However, to date, there has been limited research examining the accessibility and inclusion requirements of SVR for users who currently face digital access barriers due to a disability or age-related capability loss. As a society, we sit at a critical juncture where concepts of inclusion and accessibility can be embedded into SVR while the technology is still in its formative stage.Towards an Equitable Social VR addresses the need to ensure that SVR platforms are accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities and older people, thus allowing for the potential of the platforms in contributing to the quality of life of these population groups to be realised in full. The project will undertake a programme of R&D with the aim of delivering the SVR Inclusion Framework: a collection of formalised guidance and tools serving to facilitate equal participation in SVR for disabled and older users. The project will take into account the whole spectrum of capability loss manifestations, including vision, hearing, mobility, dexterity, and neurodiversity aspects of cognition (learning difficulties) and mental health, as well as the co-occurrence of capability loss.

迈向公平的社交 VR 社交虚拟现实 (SVR) 构建了与物理世界平行的数字世界，通过现代沉浸式虚拟现实 (VR) 技术实现远程社交参与。这种社交参与并不严格限于传统的社交互动，最近还扩展到包括远程参与培训、工作和服务提供等活动。这个数字平行世界为更多地包容目前被物理世界边缘化的个人提供了重要机会，从而扩大了数字经济的进入范围。 SVR 是一项快速新兴的技术，其采用步伐在全球大流行中加快了。然而，迄今为止，针对目前因残疾或与年龄相关的能力丧失而面临数字访问障碍的用户检查 SVR 的可访问性和包容性要求的研究还很有限。作为一个社会，我们正处于一个关键时刻，在该技术仍处于形成阶段时，可以将包容性和可访问性的概念嵌入到 SVR 中。迈向公平的社交 VR 解决了确保 SVR 平台对人们来说可访问性和包容性的需求残疾人和老年人，从而充分发挥平台在提高这些人群的生活质量方面的潜力。该项目将开展一项研发计划，旨在提供 SVR 包容性框架：一系列正式的指导和工具，旨在促进残疾人和老年用户平等参与 SVR。该项目将考虑到能力丧失的所有表现形式，包括视力、听力、活动能力、灵活性、认知的神经多样性（学习困难）和心理健康，以及能力丧失的同时发生。