"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Andrea McSwan PhD Research Year 2 Exploring 3D Animation and Virtual Reality, to Represent the Perceptual-Experiences of Artists with Sight-Loss Supervisor Meetings: Date : 31 March 2020 Meeting no : 10 – Virtual via Teams Present : Phillip Vaughan (1 st ) Fraser Bruce (2 nd ) Caroline Erolin (3 rd ) Andrea McSwan (Student) Tasks set and completed since last meeting: ·        Design Journal PhD report submitted to Chris Lim for consideration – edits underway ·        PhD expo registered at DJCAD on January 17 th 2020 ·        Semi-Structured interviews conducted face-to-face in London, January 2020. ·        All transcripts typed and uploaded onto blog ·        Blog updated and current, including all activities ·        Research Presentation delivered – Encounters Symposium DJCAD 13 March 2020 ·        BAFTSS conference in St Andrews April 2020 cancelled. But PhD poster accepted and to be included in digital competition on BAFTSS website. Outcome to be

Exploring Animation & Virtual-Reality to Represent the Perceptual-Experiences of Art-Practitioners with Sight-loss. Andrea McSwan _ PhD REPORT DRAFT_REV B – DESIGN JOURNAL Overview Whilst the sighted generally imagine people with blindness as living in a world of darkness, only a small percentage of people have total vision-loss and many visually-impaired persons have some perception of light, form, movement and shape . As mental images can be generated without sight, the ability to see is not necessary for the creation of visual art. This practice-based PhD project explores animation and virtual reality to represent the creative practice of artists with sight-loss. Using virtual-worlds to enable sighted users to understand another person’s perceptual-experiences, this inductive research adopts an interpretive approach and incorporates the strength of case-study to compare abstract concepts of blindness to actual lived experiences. The methodology will apply q