Parker, Callum;
Yoo, Soojeong;
Lee, Youngho;
Fredericks, Joel;
Dey, Arindam;
Cho, Youngjun;
Billinghurst, Mark;
(2023)
Towards an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse.
In:
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Association for Computing Machinery: Stratford, ON, Canada.
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Abstract
The push towards a Metaverse is growing, with companies such as Meta developing their own interpretation of what it should look like. The Metaverse at its conceptual core promises to remove boundaries and borders, becoming a decentralised entity for everyone to use - forming a digital virtual layer over our own "real"world. However, creation of a Metaverse or "new world"presents the opportunity to create one which is inclusive and accessible to all. This challenge is explored and discussed in this workshop, with an aim of understanding how to create a Metaverse which is open and inclusive to people with physical and intellectual disabilities, and how interactions can be designed in a way to minimise disadvantage. The key outcomes of this workshop outline new opportunities for improving accessibility in the Metaverse, methodologies for designing and evaluating accessibility, and key considerations for designing accessible Metaverse environments and interactions.
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