"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Preliminary concept art for VR environment. Representing the perceptual-experiences, art and methods of visually impaired artist, Sally Booth

Informed consent forms. Feedback from visually impaired participants. Font to be larger. No check boxes as they are difficult to see. 

PhD Research Poster displayed at the DJCAD Research Expo, January 17 2020. Revision G

Insights: Prior to conducting a semi-structured interview, I had a phone call with Sally Booth, to discuss her qualms and queries with some of the terminology in the informed consent and participant forms. Notes taken: 1). A few terms are problematic e.g "The Blind". It's old fashioned and considered a collective noun and offensive. The term "Blind and Partially Sighted People" is more acceptable. 2) 'Blind Art' and 'Blind Artists' - Sally does not consider herself to be making 'blind art'. 3) The term 'for the blind' sounds like a 19th century charity 4) 'Light for the Blind' sounds biblical Sally was happy to participate on condition that terminology was changed, particularly as this was an opportunity to introduce acceptable terms, for papers going forward

Andrea McSwan PhD Research Year 2 Light for the Blind: Exploring 3D Animation and Immersive Digital Film, to Represent the Perceptual-Experiences of the Blind Supervisor Meetings: Date : 17 th December 2019 Meeting no : 2 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 ·          Ethics approval obtained ·          Scotland Disclosure Obtained ·          Identified British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies – April 2020 St Andrews PhD poster. Poster commenced ·          Concept art commenced ·          Life Drawing classes · ...

Life Drawing for brain relaxation! 2 minute line, with 10 minute chalk pastel colour