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AccessVerse - Modelo y claves para una comunicación accesible en el metaverso

Presentado a la convocatoria de Proyectos Precompetitivos de UNIR 2024 - Concedido y financiado por UNIR para el período 2024-2026

AccessVerse - Model and keys to accessible communication in the metaverse

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Submitted to the UNIR 2024 Pre-competitive Projects Call - Awarded and funded by UNIR for the period 2024-2026

About

Although it is not a recent proposal or concept, the Metaverse is a technological trend at present. It is postulated as one of the natural evolutions of the technological trend today and is postulated as one of the natural evolutions of today's internet. today's internet
 

Since 2021, several technology players have publicly stated that they will be making huge economic and operational investments to materialize a virtual environment, interconnected in real time where interconnected in real-time, where users, based on avatars and with free will, can carry out any type of activity or task in real-time. can carry out any type of activity or task, ensuring higher levels of involvement with content and messages. involvement with content and messages
 

However, unlike the conventional web, the current Metaverse shows no sign of full accessibility. of full accessibility Therefore, the ‘AccesVerse’ project will attempt to determine the keys to making the Metaverse more accessible, taking advantage of the fact that it is still in its infancy. still in its infancy

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Analyzing the existing virtual environment using a comparative analysis of the most representative cases of social organizations involved in working with people with disabilities, entering into a dialogue disabled people and entering into dialogue with Metaverse technology promoters through focus groups and in-depth interviews. focus groups and in-depth interviews to try to identify key issues and concrete actions to involve  and concrete actions to involve as many audiences as possible in this technological revolution and thus attack from a

technological revolution and thus attack early on part of the so-called ‘digital inequality’ warned by ‘digital inequality’ warned by the World Economic Forum, in this particular case, from the perspective of physical human the field of physical human disabilities

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The main contribution of this effort, in addition to discussions at congresses and in scientific publications, will be a manual, and scientific publications will be a handbook and a protocol on accessibility in the Metaverse, with advantages and limitations according to specific disability profiles and cases.

Team

Pavel Sidorenko Bautista, PhD.  - Main Researcher

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

  • Sonia Aranzazu Ferruz González, PhD.

            Universidad Pontificia Comillas

  • María Abellán Hernández, PhD.                                                     Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

  • José María Herranz de la Casa                                                       Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

  • Jorge Miranda Galbe                                                                     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • ​Nadia Alonso López                                                                       Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

  • Egée Ortega Fernández                                                                  Universidad Nebrija

  • David del Pino Díaz                                                                         Universidad Nebrija

  • Tania Brandariz Portela                                                                   Universidad Nebrija 

  • Elena Borau Boira                                                                           Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

  • Noemí Martín García                                                                       Universidad de Valladolid
     

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