Understanding VR Accessibility in Industry

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Dear VR Practitioners,

I hope this message finds you well. I am a PhD student at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia. I am reaching out to invite you to participate in an important empirical study that aims to analyse practitioners' perceptions of various aspects of VR accessibility design and development, including visual, auditory, and cognitive impairments.

This study aims to garner insights from your invaluable industry experience in VR, and to understand the intersection of accessibility and VR development in practice. We believe your contributions can play a significant role in advancing our understanding and refining our approach to VR accessibility.

The participation involves completing a 10-minute quantitative questionnaire, which includes a range of questions from demographics to matrix rating scale queries about accessibility in VR (ranging from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree'). We have also arranged for structured interviews that take approximately 30-60 minutes, should you be interested in offering more detailed insights. We would like to show our gratitude by offering an incentive of AUD$20 to each interviewee.

Eligibility for participation:
• Participants should have industry experience in the VR domain.
• Occupations may include but are not limited to VR developers, designers, IT managers, etc.

Please fill out this online survey on: https://researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_0dHHIqJKx9iO6eq

If you are interested in the interview, kindly send an email to xve@deakin.edu.au, and we will notify you regarding your selection. Upon accessing the survey, you will be presented with a Plain Language Statement and an option to provide your consent. If you agree to participate, please select 'I consent' and proceed to the survey.

We obtained your contact details via your GitHub project related to VR.

This study has received ethics approval from Deakin University (reference number: SEBE-2023-13). If you have any questions or require further information about the project, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for considering this opportunity. Your participation can contribute significantly to this field of research.

Kind regards,

Kind regards,
Owen

School of Information Technology, Deakin University
xve@deakin.edu.au

[GhostOf0days]

Hello. Github discussions are not the best way to reach out for participants in research. Your post will likely be pushed down, and you may not have as large of a pool of participants as you wish. I suggest reading this article. I also suggest this article. Some good ways might be to try to look at VR Discords or ask people on VR games that have significant communities, such as VRChat. Also, try to reach out to companies that use it depending on the target of the research. Lastly, use snowball sampling where you ask people to provide names of friends who may be interested in being participants in the research.

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