Inclusive XR workshop - Githubissues

wseltzer commented 5 years ago

Possible workshop on inclusive XR, to explore how immersive technologies can support a diverse range of use cases and needs.

dontcallmedom commented 5 years ago

Draft CfP now ready for initial review https://w3c.github.io/inclusive-xr-workshop/

iherman commented 5 years ago

What bothers me is: where is the Web in this? Looking at the purpose, the list of topics, etc, there is no mention of the Web, and as a cursory reader I could deduce that it is all right to submit any paper that is on XR, even if it does not have anything to do with Web Technologies, Web usage, etc. What is it that W3C wants to bring to the table? (After all, VR/XR etc. is a pretty crowded field...)

joshueoconnor commented 5 years ago

@iherman has a good point, maybe we need to fine tune it and work out specifics around the Inclusive XR web? In this space, the more explicit we can be the better as it can be nebulous.

dontcallmedom commented 5 years ago

@LJWatson and I have the following reasons to keep the discussion not too tightly coupled with the Web:

We can (and should) learn from the work that has already been done around VR that is not browser-based and that means inviting people from that world to be part of this workshop.
we don't want the workshop to be too browser focused. W3C already produces specifications where the primary implementations are not browsers (ePub for example), and this could be the case with XR too.
we want to explore whether existing W3C specifications are already being used to make XR more accessible on other platforms/devices (like SSML is used by home voice assistants for example).
Using the term "web" might put people off participating. The term means so many different things, is more or less interchangeable with the "internet" for many people, and even for the cogniscenti it can mean a wide variety of things.

So yes, we would be happy to accept papers on inclusive XR that don't focus specifically on the usage of the technology of the Web - for better or for worse, the community on that topic is not all that large in the first place.

samuelweiler commented 5 years ago

Given the analysis of privacy issues the Immersive Web Working Group has already made and the observation that assistive technologies often expose their users to additional fingerprinting, it might be worth having some discussions specific to privacy in the workshop, perhaps as level-setting? Opened as issue https://github.com/w3c/inclusive-xr-workshop/issues/5 @michael-n-cooper (Other minor issues filed in the repo for the CFP.) I'm going to mark this for sec & privacy review being done, though I think you have significant work to do on both.

michael-n-cooper commented 5 years ago

Copying @LJWatson as I'm not involved in the planning of the workshop.

michael-n-cooper commented 5 years ago

APA review of this workshop complete, no comments.

wseltzer commented 4 years ago

https://www.w3.org/2019/08/inclusive-xr-workshop/

r12a commented 4 years ago

Looking at the sections on the purpose of the workshop and identifying gaps, inclusive design seems to exclude internationalisation, which is disappointing.

wseltzer commented 4 years ago

Report: https://www.w3.org/2019/08/inclusive-xr-workshop/report.html

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