PhD report published - Design Journal Taylor & Francis online
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Design Journal Phd Report - Rev B. Sent to Chris Lim DJCAD for comment
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...