Horizon CDT Year 1

随着混合现实技术在博物馆中越来越流行，公众对其可访问性和可用性的质疑也在继续。这项研究旨在找到其中的一些问题，并研究我们如何设计解决方案和创建支持这些少数群体体验的流程。研究混合现实对博物馆的影响仍然是相当新的，因此尽早提出可访问性问题有助于创造公平的体验。这将是一项以残疾人为主导的研究，包括多种残疾人的声音，以一种支持他们面临的问题的方式进行创造和研究，使用参与式研究方法。特别是在基于混合现实应用程序的实践中支持自底设计的可访问性，特别是对于文化遗产背景。博士的目标是创建指导方针或框架，以在博物馆等环境中创建未来的装置，以确保它们尽可能易于访问。它还旨在直接建议和影响这项技术未来可能最有用的地方。它还希望支持设计过程的创建，以解决可访问性问题并整合边缘化的体验。不把可访问性视为需要跨越的界限，而是一个机会。另一方面是研究工作的呈现，以及如何使这种研究对外行人或研究之外的专业人员有用。不是挑选我们认为他们能理解的内容，而是尽可能让更多的观众能够理解。在这里，有必要认识到这些团体可能拥有的非学术专业知识。虽然这几乎肯定超出了博士的范围，以充分研究弥合这一差距，但它的目标是在未来形成这种整合的基础的一部分。本文作者是由诺丁汉大学博士培养地平线中心(UKRI资助号：EP / S023305/1)。

As mixed reality technology continues to become more prevalent in museums there are continuing questions on its accessibility and useability by the general public. This research aims to find some of these problems and investigate how we design solutions and create processes that support these minority experiences. Researching the effect of mixed reality in museums is still reasonably new and so bringing questions of accessibility in early supports the creation of equitable experiences.It will be disability-led research that includes multiple disabled voices to create and research in a way that supports the problems they face, using participatory research methods. Specifically supporting ground-up designed-in accessibility in practice based mixed reality applications, especially for cultural heritage contexts.The PhD aims to create guidelines or frameworks to create future installations in settings like museums to ensure they are as accessible as possible. It also aims to directly suggest and influence where the technology might be most helpful in future. It also wants to support the creation of design processes that lean into accessibility problems and integrate marginalised experiences. Not seeing accessibility as a boundary to get over but an opportunity.The other side of this is looking at the presentation of the work, and how this kind of research can be made useful to a lay population, or professionals outside of research. Not picking or choosing what we think they can understand but making as much as possible available and accessible to wider audiences. It is essential here to recognise the non-academic expertise these groups may have. While it is almost certainly beyond the scope of the PhD to fully investigate bridging this gap there is an aim for it to form part of the basis of this integration in future.This author is supported by the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Nottingham (UKRI Grant No. EP/S023305/1).