Скачать или смотреть British Science Week: Makeactive-UK: a VR touch studio for sight-impaired users

For the sight-impaired creative community it is difficult to facilitate an appropriate simulation modelling systems akin to Adobe or AutoCAD due to the viso-centric nature of these systems. This creates a barrier for non-sighted and sight impaired practitioners making it more difficult to gain equal access and this limits their digital skills range.

Drawing on our extensive expertise in user-led studies and augmented reality (AR) systems, we aim to develop a dynamic touch-based system which seeks to resolve issues related to access to computer aided design (CAD) for the sight-impaired creative community by exchanging sight for touch and sound. The Makeactive-UK project will ultimately afford non-sighted & sight impaired users to work alongside their sighted peers to enable collaboration on ideation and germinal phases within the virtual realm.