Touch Post-Covid19: Navigating through deafblindness in the UK via contactless haptic-audio-visual technologies of perception.

这是一项面向公众的调查，旨在调查触摸剥夺对聋人社区的影响。它建立在格拉斯哥大学现有的跨学科研究项目(电影电视和量子物理)的基础上，通过视听损伤的方式检查感官知觉，并调查感知技术如何增强聋人的感官体验。Covid19极大地提高了我们对触觉的认识，并限制了我们使用触觉。触摸现在威胁着生命，但它仍然是与世界和其他人的重要联系。对于依赖触觉体验在世界上导航的聋盲社区来说，后Covid社会中对触摸和亲密的恐惧可能会带来新的挑战，并增加社会孤立。我们将主要与聋盲苏格兰和聋盲英国合作，并借鉴感官和媒体研究，创建选定成员的社会经历的视听记录，这将有助于了解他们和我们的新世界。我们还将制定策略和新的非接触式触觉视听工具/技术，促进个人安全可靠的交流。研究成果将通过为政策制定提供信息的报告、非接触式视听工具和战略、在线展览和开放获取数据、期刊文章和公共意识活动到达政策制定者、学者和公众受众手中。

This is a public-facing investigation into the impact of touch deprivation on deafblind communities. Building on an existing interdisciplinary research project (Film and Television, and Quantum Physics) at the University of Glasgow, it examines sense perception through the means of audio- visual impairment and investigates how technologies of perception may augment the sensory experience of deafblind people. Covid19 has acutely heightened our awareness of and restrained us from using the sense of touch. Touching is now threatening lives, but it still remains a vital connection to the world and others. For deafblind communities, who rely on haptic experiences to navigate the world, the fear of touch and intimacy in post-Covid society is likely to impose new challenges and increase social isolation. Working primarily with Deafblind Scotland, and Deafblind UK, and drawing on sensory and media studies, we will create audio-visual documentation of social experiences of selected members, which will aid in understanding their and our new world. We will also develop strategies and new contactless haptic-audio-visual tools/technologies that facilitate safe and reliable communication for individuals. Research findings will reach policymakers, academics, and public audiences through reports that inform policymaking, contactless haptic-audio-visual tools and strategies, online exhibitions and open access data, journal articles, and public awareness events.