"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Process and flow of coding ideas: Resumed looking at transcripts at approx. 29 minutes in. Reflected upon verbatim extracts around the idea of transparency & visibility vs discreet and opaque. Representation and abstraction, luminosity, visual perception informing practice and constant awareness. Inserted the current research questions into the slides, when I could begin to form a link. Research questions may evolve and adapt throughout the data coding process. Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes. Initial latent codes identified today: Drawings of strangers allows for discreet observation. Both the subject matter and the artist are invisible and anonymous. Things and tools aid sight-loss; people don't. Transparent drawings of individuals, layered an viewed in groups, echoes the idea of a lone person layered into commuter crowds. Colours are invisible, yet known, but hospitals “turn a blind eye” People don’t discuss problems with their si...

Process and flow of coding ideas: Continued to review transcripts and drag and drop verbatim extracts onto slides. Using a mix of colour codings, shuffling slides around, dual colours on some text extracts where there may be more than one code applicable. Considering ideas of transparency and discretion.   Seeking solutions in materials and methods to continue creating artwork despite sight-loss. Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes. Initial latent codes identified today: Dot-to-Dot ink splotts reveal pauses in visible ability – there is jeopardy not only in the material but the creative security? Some materials, such as ink, needs to be mastered – by artists. Those with sight and those with sight-loss Sight loss informs practice by paring down to the essentials of posture and gait Stoic acceptance and self-reliance is necessary, when invisible Being explicit about sight-loss is revealing and transparent and art is an expression of sight-lo...

Process and flow of coding ideas: Began by scanning the verbatim extracts identified in coding memo 003 and dragged and dropped into the cognitive thought slide. Moved onto latent codes and resumed transcript at approx. 08:00 minutes in. Awareness of senses of scale, vertiginous height in bright contrast areas could imply safety, and travelling whilst drawing on the escalator into the dark abyss is dangerous. Where dangerous or not in bright light, there is safety in drawing from memory. Considering verbatim extracts that imply independence, confidence or lack of and being unobtrusive. Protection in a herded commuter crowd – as a lone person not going with the flow causes delay to the group. Colour coded verbatim extracts in the scale, light, dark, height category in bright orange, in reference to the Glasgow clockwork orange colours used. Pale pink for fears in the confidence, independence and unobtrusive category. Running the audio against the transcript and amending any erro...

Process and flow of coding ideas : Generating Initial Codes: Began to copy paste verbatim extracts into the slide ‘cognitive thoughts that do not require sight’ and revisited the transcript, whilst listening to the audio. Discovered errors and missed dialogue and began to clean up and correct. Avoided the temptation to skim through and spent time listening and reading simultaneously. Ideas began to form and I looked again at my blog post about ‘Thematic Analysis and Introduction'. Focused on the definitions of Latent and Semantic Codes and looked again at the transcript whilst listening to the audio tapes. Also considered the social context and looked at what that means in terms of sight-loss in the UK. Found some papers from Abertay university – including Thurston, M. (2014). “They think they know what’s best for me”: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of inclusion and support in high school for vision-impaired students with albinism. Internationa...

Research this week around Thematic Analysis and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, to ascertain which approach of qualitative data analysis is the most appropriate. Pressed pause on TA data analysis, following my conversation with Katie Brown and  a meeting with my supervisors yesterday....commenced analysis again today.  Using powerpoint as a brain-dump tool, for all thoughts, copy-pasted verbatim transcripts, plus bashing clip art imagery into the slide, to break up the blocks of text, in an attempt to relax the creative thinking process... Brought to mind colour scripts from the animation pipe-line workflow...not sure how these may be incorporated yet....

Following my supervision meeting #11 yesterday, Caroline mentioned this as a possible approach, when considering an alternative to the term 'case study' The autoethnographic approach As my practice in this area has evolved methodologically and philosophically, it has become increasingly clear to me that an autoethnographic approach, derived from the productive and creative interdependence between ethnography and autobiography, is a way of perceiving, experiencing and expressing the world, and the world of the ‘Other’, that works very well from an artist’s perspective. Autoethnography is, according to Denzin (Denzin, 2013) a working method that constitutes a combination of ‘performative’ actions that seek to articulate experience. In prioritising the analysis of the researcher’s personal experiences in relation to of the experiences of the Other, autoethnographic practice speaks not about or for the Other but rather to and with them. Autoethnography is an inclusive and...

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 : 23 April 2020 Meeting no : 11 – 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 ·          Blog updated and current, including all activities ·          BAFTSS conference in St Andrews April 2020 cancelled. But PhD poster Shortlisted. Didn’t win ·          Abstract submitted to Graduate Women Scotland 15th annual Research Presentation Day on 18 April 2020. Zoom call this past weekend with some of the people who were involved ·      ...

Although I am not an editor or reviewer I think this checklist provides challenging questions that I  can use to ensure clarity of thought and  argument for my research philosophy, approach and chosen data analysis. Guidelines for reviewers and editors evaluating thematic analysis manuscripts Produced by Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun (2019) Available: https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/psych/about/ourresearch/documents/TA%20website%20update%2010.8.17%20review%20checklist.pdf We regularly encounter published TA studies where there are mismatches between various elements of the report and practice. We have developed the following checklist for editors and reviewers, to facilitate the publication of coherent and quality thematic analysis – of all forms. The checklist is split between conceptual and methodological discussion/practice and analytic output. Evaluating the methods and methodology 1. Is the use of TA explained (even if only briefly)? 2. Do t...

Researching what is thematic analysis to ensure that it's the correct method for analysing my transcripts... https://youtu.be/4voVhTiVydc Notes: Thematic Analysis is an umbrella term for a wide range of approaches Three main schools of TA. 1) Coding 2) Codebook 3) Reflexive Definition of a theme - bucket and storybook. Bucket theme is a 'domain summary'. Identifies an area or domain of the data and summarises what the participants said in relation to that area.  Often a surface level. Overview statements and observations, but without a story. Does it represent an underdeveloped theme? Braun and Clarke believe so. These types of 'bucket themes' lack depth. Broad domain summaries are not fully realised themes (storybook themes). Themes need to be named very well. Almost like an 'abstract' or an 'invitation' and not to be one word. Hold in mind what  Storybook theme (fully realised theme) - is a patterning of shared meaning underpinned by a c...

Conversations this afternoon with fellow PhDs Katie Brown and Lauren Baker. I wanted some outside perspective on the beginnings of data coding that I've created, before heading too far in. Request for a quick supervisory call too, to double-check that thematic analysis is  appropriate analysis with three case-study participants. Notes: Katie:  What I've initially shown leads to 'bucket' - see Braun and Clarke e.g 'Sensory Experience' is too brief. Make it into sentences that can be understood without the data available Keep at the forefront 'what is interesting?' Latent codes Next cycle - read about Braun and Clarke's paper (see paper copy printed) and example on actual coding Suggests three codes per extract e.g dual meanings, contrast, expressions of blindness being difficult, different, positive, neutral Check if I am actually doing case-study narrative analysis? Also Thematic Analysis recommends a particular minimum sample amou...

Using the pen tool in Powerpoint, combined with a wacom tablet to add some hand-written notes. A fan of the efficiency of digital interfaces and the ability to cut and  paste verbatim text, but also enjoy the freedom of hand scrawled notation too... Incorporating hand written notes relaxed my thinking. I then collated verbatim extracts which correlated to my initial thoughts, about the participant's comments relating to 'visual perception' - indicated by lime green. The next step involved scanning the powerpoint slides for text  highlighted in lime green, I then dragged the lime green text onto one slide, titled 'frequency of perception'. Also considering updating a coding memo word document, to correlate with the relevant powerpoint slides.

For data coding I am using Powerpoint slides, with coded extracts and then a Wacom graphics tablet to write fast, free-form handwritten notes.  https://youtu.be/85AuS6uYtyI

Incorporating the use of a word document to record Critical Reflection Coding Memo's combined with powerpoint slides. First attempts at establishing an analytical system to commence data analysis and document my thought process throughout... Interesting to note Victoria Clarke's lectures where she states that upon commencement of data analysis, the first experience may be one of fear that there is not enough data. Replaced by a contrary fear that there may be too much... Finding a way through the process I've set up a call with Katie Brown and Lauren Baker (fellow PhDs) to review my beginnings of analysis... Critical Reflection – Coding Memo _001     16 April 2020 For a first reading of Sally Booth transcripts of interview dated 20 January 2020 Thoughts and observations of patterns in the text. Personal experience of losing sight Visual perception Creative practice Ways of seeing? Visual Aids? Policy? Stigma? Lack of support? Sensory Experience...