Program

Theme 1 - the broader metaverse

• Disconnected from Reality: Do the core concepts of the metaverse exclude disabled individuals? 

  • Mark Quinlan

• The perception of an inclusive metaverse for the visually impaired

  • Paula C. Fernandes, Daniela C. Tavares, Bruno N. Coelho and Saul Delabrida

• Reawakening the Ghosts from the Past? Accessibility Lessons Learned from Second Life

  • Annika Kaltenhauser and Johannes Schöning

• Children in virtual reality deserves more attention

  • Devin Stapleton, Alex Quezada and Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz Ferdous

• From Metaverse to Bodyverse: Centering the Technological Discourse around Inclusive Embodied Experiences

  • Giulia Barbareschi, Midori Kawaguchi, Ximing Shen, Ando Ryoichi, Jun Nishida and Kouta Minamizawa

Theme 2 - hardware and interaction

• DasherVR: Evaluating a Predictive Text Entry System in Immersive Virtual Reality

  • Sebastian Pape, Jan Jakub Ackermann, Tim Weissker and Torsten W. Kuhlen

• PixelClay: making the metaverse accessible for people who are blind and partially sighted through a novel high fidelity malleable pin display

  • Albert Higgins, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar, Yu Yan, Wen Mo and Catherine Holloway

• Inferring Gestural Intent as a Model to Support Accessible Virtual Reality Interactions for People with Upper-Limbs Motor Impairments

  • Siyu Zhang, Kirsten Cater and Oussama Metatla

• Alt Text and Alt Sense in VR: Engaging Screen Reader Users within the Metaverse Through Multisenses

  • Yu Sun, Carolin Stellmacher, Annika Kaltenhauser, Nadine Wagener, Daniel Neumann and Johannes Schöning

• Magical or Natural Interactions? Towards Accessible Music Therapy Approaches for Autistic Children With Virtual Reality

  • Ali Adjorlu, Valentin Bauer and Stefania Serafin

Theme 3 - evaluating accessibility and prototyping

• Initial feasibility study of a child friendly animated cybersickness questionnaire

  • Paula Arroyave, Elliot Topper, Malcolm Kahora and Sharif Mohammad Shahnewaz Ferdous

• INCLUVERSO 5G: Designing and validating the technology for the Incluverse

  • Pablo Pérez, Diego González-Morín, Jaime Ruiz Alonso, Jesús Gutiérrez, Marta Orduna, Carlos Cortés, María Nava-Ruiz and María Julia Sánchez Silva

• Towards a More Inclusive Metaverse via Designing Tools That Support Collaborative Virtual World Building by Users With and Without Disabilities

  • Ken Jen Lee and Edith Law

• The Empathic Metaverse: An Assistive Bioresponsive Platform For Emotional Experience Sharing

  • Yun Suen Pai, Mark Armstrong, Kinga Skiers, Anish Kundu, Danyang Peng, Yixin Wang, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Chi-Lan Yang and Kouta Minamizawa

Theme 4 - human factors and design considerations

• Towards Accessibility Guidelines for the Metaverse: A Synthesis of Recommendations for People Living With Dementia

  • Robin Abendschein, Shital Desai and Arlene Astell

• Design Considerations for Metaverse Applications to Reduce

Geographical Healthcare Disparities

• • Youngho Lee, Hyoseok Yoon, Choonsung Shin, Jae Hyuk Kim, Jongmyung Choi and Sun Kyung Kim

• Designing for Equity: Creating Accessible and Inclusive Educational Virtual Reality

  • Qiao Jin and Svetlana Yarosh

• A Metaverse for All: Pushing the Boundaries of Inclusive Design

  • Vanja Garaj, John Dudley and Per Ola Kristensson