Research - VR Barriers - Barriers

Resources & Downloads

A collection of assets and documents related to the project

Downloads

1. Dataset & User Guide

The main goal for the project was to capture information on barriers present within VR. In order to capture as many barriers as possible, we worked with over 100 users across 15 sessions.

During each session we captured notes on the barriers we observed. Take a look at our methdology for more information on our approach.

We performed a thematic analyses of the barrier observations to produce a dataset which captures each of the barriers we have observed. We have grouped the barriers by impairment. The barriers browser provides a handy tool for viewing all of the barriers in one place along with the canonical barrier descriptions.

The dataset is available as a CSV download below. It has has the following actions performed:

  • Duplicated items have been removed.
  • Identifying data has been removed.
  • Data has been tagged with primary impairment, impact and other metadata.
  • To support the dataset we have also produced a dataset user guide. This guide explains the terms used within the barriers dataset.

Download coming soon!

2. Test Enviroment Screenshots & Assets

This download contains a number of high resolution screenshots of the test environment.

Download test environment assets

3. Switch control maps

This download contains the following for each of our switch control schemes:

  • Diagram of how we connected the XAC and inputs
  • Screenshot of unreal engine setup we used

Resources

###1. Talks

We have been fortunate enough to be invited to several events in order to talk about the project. This section included videos and slide downloads for those talks.

1.1 Project Overview

This talk provides an overview of the project and it’s goals:

1.2 A11yTo: Motor Barriers

This talk provides a deep dive into the motor barriers and the switch control schemes.

1.3 Axe-Con: Cognitive Barriers in VR & Beyond

This talk provides a deep dive into the cognitive barriers and some of the adjustments we made

2 Other Documents

2.1 Summary of adaptions for low vision users.

This document outlines a series of barriers observed for low vision users and the adaptions made to the environment.

2.2 Hardware Adaptions

This document outlines some of the physical adaptions made to the hardware.