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Immersive Technologies for Accessible User Experiences

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Extended reality; Usability; User experience

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Immersive technologies encompass hardware and software that provide sensory feedback in the form of visual, auditory, haptic, or olfactory cues employing diverse human interface devices. Coupled with human-centered design considering varying human factors associated with perception, cognition, and physical ergonomics, these technologies aim to provide accessible user experiences. Although accessibility is typically associated with removing barriers for those experiencing disabilities, usability should be used instead because its purpose is the ease of use regardless of the end-user.

Introduction

Immersive technologies enable cross-sensory experiences that blur the frontier between virtual and real worlds (Suh and Prophet 2018). The cross-sensory stimuli are also referred to as multimodal or cross-modal because of the use, combination, integration, or translation of sensory cues into diverse installations (i.e., artistic,...

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Uribe-Quevedo, A. (2022). Immersive Technologies for Accessible User Experiences. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_449-1

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