"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 July 2020 Meeting no: 12 – 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 – all revisions done. ·          Blog updated and current, including all activities ·          DRHA 2020 advised taking part. But do not appear on programme. Awaiting response to emails. ·          Thematic Analysis – both Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Blog updated with coding memos. Themes identified for each participant, plus over-arching themes common to all participants.

To search for individual methods, perceptions and how sight-loss influenced their creative practice, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was applied to the data set of each individual participant. The method of data coding was based upon Reflexive Thematic Analysis, where themes were deliberately sought and defined - as a focal point for how this could be replicated as an animated experience, rather than data simply emerging from the data. Data codes became potential sub-themes, candidate themes and final themes. To search for commonalities and over-arching themes across all data sets, the sub-themes for each participant were reviewed as an entire data set and grouped where themes over-lapped and were common to more than one participant. Over-arching themes below: GAIT as an identification method The importance of ENVIRONMENT for creative practice Tactile DISPLAY problems The importance of AUTONOMY Making the INVISIBLE VISIBLE Embracing mistakes DISABILITY GAIN Memories

Defined and refined themes today and generated themes Four over-arching themes selected from the interview with David: Wayfinding and Visualisation with Negative Space Disability as an asset and gain Methods and Materials to capture animated movement Sensory modalities to identify environment

This phase began with collating the sub-themes. The process of collating them out of context, allowed objective review, to see if the sub-themes stand alone. The sub-themes are now collated together and the next step will be to apply them to the research questions.

Collating sub-themes to create potential themes...to be continued....next step to insert the research questions....

Phase 3: Creating potential sub-themes. Next step is to group these sub-themes into potential themes.

Phase 3: Searching for themes. "Phase 3 begins when all data have been initially coded and collated. This phase re-focuses the analysis at the border level of themes, rather than codes, involves sorting the different codes into potential themes, and collating all the relevant coded data extracts within the identified themes. Essentially, you are starting to analyse your codes and consider how different codes may combine to form an overarching theme." Braun, V., Clarke V.  Using thematic analysis in psychology.  Qualitiative research in psychology 2006 Jan 1;3(2):77-101 Initial codes below, collated from memos. The next step will be to start collating these codes into potential sub-themes