Quinlan, Mark;
(2023)
Disconnected from Reality: Do the core concepts of the
metaverse exclude disabled individuals?
In:
Towards an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse at ACM CHI’23.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Hamburg, Germany.
(In press).
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Abstract
Commercially-driven metaverse development has been driven by philosophical and science fiction concepts. Through translating these concepts into products, the developers may have inadvertently excluded individuals with disabilities from this new expanded reality. This ideologically-driven development is presented in this paper through a brief background of what we see as the most influential of these concepts, and explain how these might affect disabled individuals wishing to engage with said products. It is our hope that these ideas prompt conversation on future inclusivity access from the concept stage of future metaverse development.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Disconnected from Reality: Do the core concepts of the metaverse exclude disabled individuals? |
| Event: | ACM CHI |
| Location: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Dates: | 25 Apr 2023 - 30 Nov 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.acm.org/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Metaverse, Cyber World, Avatar, Virtual-Reality, ExtendedReality. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181061 |
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