During the session, we will share our ongoing work with an inclusive theatre group around designing an immersive inclusive performance, the challenges we have faced and the ideas developed so far to tackle this issue. We will present the participants with some questions and themes which they will discuss in smaller groups and finally present their ideas to the group. This will, hopefully, initiate discussions around technical limitations and affordances of immersive technology, issues of representation and inclusion in immersive media tools and experiences.
The goal of this session is to build bridges across research and technology on one hand and the disabled community on the other, by enhancing and developing upon tools for inclusivity and accessibility within the innovative environment of Extended Reality in the performing arts
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:We see the opportunity for this workshop as a way to initiate a network of researchers and practitioners around the inclusivity of virtual worlds and the promotion of the social model of disability through arts and technology. We hope that this session will work as a starting point of establishing a global network to support our approach and hopefully inspire other teams to find the inclusive artistic groups of their district and work with them in while cooperating with an international network.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Our goal is to initiate discussions among the participants and create the space for these discussion to take place and synthesise new ideas. To this end, we believe that the number of participants might affect the flow of the discussion and the time allocated to each participant but it will not hinder the session. Thus, during our workshop we will focus on inclusive ways to contribute to the topic by leaving to the participants the space to express themselves and contribute to the topic.
We are PhD candidates in Open Lab - Newcastle, exploring the emerging technologies' social aspects and trying to understand how they could eliminate the societies' disability to serve all their citizens.