Makeactive UK: an exploration of Virtual Reality Maker Spaces for multi-user, collaborative design at a distance

Makeactive UK：对用于多用户远程协作设计的虚拟现实创客空间的探索

• 批准号: 10021756
• 金额: $ 4.56万
• 依托单位: GENERIC ROBOTICS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10021756
• 关键词: Makeactive; UK; exploration; Virtual; Reality

We are fortunate to be tackling the global challenge that COVID-19 presents at a time when technology can provide high-fidelity, real-time, visual, and auditory information at scale; the 'Zoom-call' is essential to daily activity. A particular challenge of remote working is collaborating when direct touch -- either between people or via shared objects and spaces -- is an essential component, whether for medicine, communication, teaching, or design. For the sight-impaired community, many aspects of education, such as art and design courses, are exclusively a "hand's-on" activity. Sharing and communicating design ideas is almost impossible without the ability to "visualize" the creation and for the sight-impaired user to visualize through touch and sound. This means, that in an exclusively audio-visual online world, there is no provision for the sight-impaired to access education which requires sharing and collaborating with 2D or 3D design process, effectively cutting this community off from the benefits of online, digital interaction, that others in the education system take for granted. Indeed, the pace of change is so fast now, traditional, in-person collaborative education spaces are disappearing altogether.We believe there is the opportunity to take state of the art immersive, haptic (touch) technologies to solve challenges in other domains e.g. education and the creative industries, and apply them to create touch-enabled, online digital "maker spaces" aimed at provisioning remote learners with an entirely new platform for education in the disciplines of arts, crafts, design, and engineering.This project will lay the groundwork for addressing this substantial but crucial challenge by working closely with a broad range of stakeholders from the sight-impaired and creative design communities. From this project, we can better understand their current behaviors and how their needs would map onto an online, digital equivalent. We will balance this subjective approach with a more objective investigation into the practicalities by taking an existing, proven technology stack that is being used to experiment with shared, interaction with real-time touch feedback and adjusting it sufficiently to allow designers to experience what a collaborative, online 3D touch-enabled design space might be like.We will combine these two strands to form a clear understanding of a strategy to go forward and address the exciting but substantial challenge of opening the digital collaborative experience, not just the sight-impaired, but any design practitioner who would benefit from the internet where touch is not as well provisioned as sight and sound today.

我们很幸运能够应对Covid-19在技术可以大规模提供高保真，实时，视觉和听觉信息的时候提出的全球挑战； “ Zoom-Call”对于日常活动至关重要。远程工作的一个特殊挑战是在直接触摸（通过共享对象和空间之间的直接触摸）是一项重要组成部分，无论是医学，交流，教学还是设计。对于视力障碍社区而言，教育的许多方面，例如艺术和设计课程，完全是“手”的活动。如果没有能力“可视化”创建和观察用户通过触摸和声音可视化的能力，几乎不可能共享和交流设计思想。这意味着，在独家视听的在线世界中，没有规定观察受损的访问教育，这需要与2D或3D设计过程共享和合作，从而有效地将该社区从在线数字，数字互动的好处中脱颖而出，以至于其他人在教育系统中获得了授予。的确，变革的步伐如此之快，传统的，面对面的协作教育空间正在完全消失。我们相信有机会采取最先知，触觉（触摸）技术来解决其他领域中的挑战，例如。教育和创意产业，并将其应用于创建触摸的，在线数字“制造商空间”，旨在通过在艺术，手工艺，设计和工程学科中为远程学习者提供全新的教育平台。该项目将为与观点持续的利益范围与观点企业的广泛范围和创造性的创造性社区相吻合而努力，以解决这一实质但重要的挑战。从这个项目中，我们可以更好地了解他们当前的行为以及他们的需求将如何映射到在线数字等效上。我们将通过采取现有的，可靠的技术堆栈来平衡这种主观方法和对实用性的更客观调查，该堆栈被用来与共享的，与实时接触反馈相互作用并进行充分调整以允许设计人员体验一个协作，在线3D触摸的设计空间的方式。视线受损，但是任何将从互联网中受益的任何设计从业人员，那里的触点不像当今的视觉和声音那样完美。