"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Professor John Ravenscroft – Scottish Sensory Centre The starting point for the scoping the research network began at the Scottish Sensory Centre, based in Edinburgh University, which works collaboratively with professionals, parents and young people and aims to foster educational research activities relating to children and young people with a sensory impairment in Scotland. Proactively offering high quality professional development activities to enhance knowledge and understanding of issues relating to sensory impairment, the SSC promotes the exchange and dissemination of specialist knowledge and acts as a hub for other organisations by contributing to and taking forward specialist professional networking (SSC, 2019) . Professor Ravenscroft’s research is concerned with the field of visual impairment (Ravenscroft, 2019) focusing towards Cerebral (Cortical) Visual Impairment (CVI) and the interesting notion of representation and supramodality , meaning that the brain does not ...

Research visit to the Scottish Sensory Centre, Dr John Ravenscroft 12th June 2019. Notes: Ravenscroft, J. (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment: Social and Cultural Research, Routledge. Suggested chapter 2 for philosophies. John Kennedy - Sighted and writes from the perspective of blind artist. Main academic regarding blind artists David Feeney - Hope University Liverpool. Writes about art/art world, visually impaired Simon Hayhoe - (contact established already) CVI - Cerebral (Cortical) Visual Impairment  https://cviscotland.org/  "Interesting notion of representation" Gordon Dutton  - Retired, Glasgow  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gordon_Dutton2 . World expert on CVI. Maybe a keynote speaker for Public Engagement? Check for papers written with Sylvie Chokron Vision and the brain - Gordon Dutton and Amanda Lewick? CVI Artists to be researched. Or artists with cerebral palsy, dorsal stream damage Journals  https://journals.sagep...

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/eardley-alison Appointment made for 2 July with Dr Alison Eardley at the University of Westminster; details found through the Research Associates section (visual impairment), on the Scottish Sensory Centre website. http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/research/members.html Research includes: Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Memory Cognitive Psychology https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Eardley

http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/ Appointment made 12 June 2019 with Professor JohnRavenscroft https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/john-ravenscroft(dfc10489-2902-42d5-b3c6-eab51472497e)/activities.html of the Scottish Sensory Centre in Edinburgh; to discuss my project and links to blind art practitioners in Scotland, plus possible future VR projects post PhD. Research includes: Psychology Childhood visual Impairment Sight loss Ontology of Inductive Systems