Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities

Kurtis Weir; Fernando Loizides; Vinita Nahar; Amar Aggoun; George Buchanan

doi:10.1145/3383583.3398610

Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities

Kurtis Weir, Fernando Loizides, Vinita Nahar, Amar Aggoun, George Buchanan

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We present our work on creating a virtual reality personal library environment to enable people with severe visual disabilities to engage in reading tasks. The environment acts as a personal study or library to an individual, who under other circumstances would not be able to access or use a public library or a physical study at home. We present tests undertaken to identify the requirements and needs of our users to inform this environment and finally present the working prototype.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	W4A '20: Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference
Editors	Tiago Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau, David Sloan
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	393-396
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450370497
ISBN (Print)	9781450370503
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398610
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 2020

Keywords

Virtual Reality
VR
Visual Disabilities
Library
Reading

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Weir, K., Loizides, F., Nahar, V., Aggoun, A., & Buchanan, G. (2020). Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities. In T. Guerreiro, H. Nicolau, & D. Sloan (Eds.), W4A '20: Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (pp. 393-396). Article 43 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398610

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Weir, K, Loizides, F, Nahar, V, Aggoun, A & Buchanan, G 2020, Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities. in T Guerreiro, H Nicolau & D Sloan (eds), W4A '20: Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference., 43, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 393-396. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398610

Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities. / Weir, Kurtis; Loizides, Fernando; Nahar, Vinita et al.
W4A '20: Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference. ed. / Tiago Guerreiro; Hugo Nicolau; David Sloan. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 393-396 43.

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Weir K, Loizides F, Nahar V, Aggoun A, Buchanan G. Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities. In Guerreiro T, Nicolau H, Sloan D, editors, W4A '20: Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. p. 393-396. 43 doi: 10.1145/3383583.3398610

Creating a Bespoke Virtual Reality Personal Library Space for Persons with Severe Visual Disabilities

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