Virtual Showdown

Wedoff, Ryan; Ball, Lindsay; Wang, Amelia; Khoo, Yi Xuan; Lieberman, Lauren J.; Rector, Kyle

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300371

Cited by 53 publications

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“…While recent explorations consider VR gaming for players with visual impairment 1 [31] and playful VR environments for neurodiverse children [7], the body-and movement-centric control scheme of many VR environments can be challenging for individuals with mobility impairment. They often combine hand-held controls with locomotion and/or extensive upper body movement which are not well situated to the movement of wheelchair users.…”

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Virtual Reality Games for People Using Wheelchairs

Gerling

Dickinson

Hicks

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Virtual Reality (VR) holds the promise of providing engaging embodied experiences, but little is known about how people with disabilities engage with it. We explore challenges and opportunities of VR gaming for wheelchair users. First, we present findings from a survey that received 25 responses and gives insights into wheelchair users' motives to (non-) engage with VR and their experiences. Drawing from this survey, we derive design implications which we tested through implementation and qualitative evaluation of three full-body VR game prototypes with 18 participants. Our results show that VR gaming engages wheelchair users, though nuanced consideration is required for the design of embodied immersive experiences for minority bodies, and we illustrate how designers can create meaningful, positive experiences.

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Virtual Reality Games for People Using Wheelchairs

Gerling

Dickinson

Hicks

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…When the user moves and rotates around, the audio stays at the same position in 3D world space, but depending on the relative position of the player it might shift from the left to the right ear. Prioritizing one ear over the other in this context is referred to as lateralization or spatialization [17]. Most game engines have built-in support for this, allowing audio to be played anywhere in the 3D environment, which is then automatically adjusted based on the player's position and orientation.…”

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Toward inclusivity: Virtual reality museums for the visually impaired

Zaal

Salah

Hürst

2022

2022 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR)

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The access to virtual reality museums mostly relies on the visual sense, making it difficult if not impossible for visually impaired people to partake in the experience. We present a between-subjects study exploring if narrations and spatialized 'reference' audio combined with haptic feedback can be a sufficient replacement for the traditional use of vision in a virtual reality art museum. Our pilot study compares two implementations: A standard 'sighted' version that provides visual artifacts along with related acoustic narratives, a 'visually impaired' version with modified narratives and enhanced audio and haptics that was tested by visually impaired participants, as well as 'blindfolded' sighted individuals. Auditory and haptic feedback in the latter version were used to steer visitors towards specific virtual objects. Although the experiences of the visually impaired were obviously not statistically equivalent to the nonimpaired group, results show that our method enabled them to experience the virtual reality museum adequately and find objects faster due to the additional auditory and haptic feedback.

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“…Relatively little work has considered how to make the AR applications that are quickly becoming popular more broadly accessible, aside from guidelines on the use of color and audio in AR for users with low vision or hearing impairments [37]. Prior work has considered how to make VR accessible for people with visual impairments via audio [67] and haptic feedback [32,72]. For example, SeeingVR introduces methods for making VR accessible to low-vision users, and largely takes inspiration from prior systems for providing access to the digital and physical worlds, e.g., through adjustments to visual content and through various automated methods for describing or enhancing the virtual content at runtime [18,72,76].…”

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Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible

Herskovitz

White

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Augmented Reality (AR) technology creates new immersive experiences in entertainment, games, education, retail, and social media. AR content is often primarily visual and it is challenging to enable access to it non-visually due to the mix of virtual and real-world content. In this paper, we identify common constituent tasks in AR by analyzing existing mobile AR applications for iOS, and characterize the design space of tasks that require accessible alternatives. For each of the major task categories, we create prototype accessible alternatives that we evaluate in a study with 10 blind participants to explore their perceptions of accessible AR. Our study demonstrates that these prototypes make AR possible to use for blind users and reveals a number of insights to move forward. We believe our work sets forth not only exemplars for developers to create accessible AR applications, but also a roadmap for future research to make AR comprehensively accessible. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Accessibility technologies; Mixed / augmented reality.

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Virtual Showdown

Cited by 53 publications

References 18 publications

Virtual Reality Games for People Using Wheelchairs

Virtual Reality Games for People Using Wheelchairs

Toward inclusivity: Virtual reality museums for the visually impaired

Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible

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