The Centre for Creative Technologies and Brigstow Institute warmly invite you to the third workshop from our Alternative Technologies Workshop Series

Open to all skills. Lunch is included.

The workshop draws from Eirini’s practice-based research on how to bridge the physical and virtual worlds, as well as how sensory alignment and/or misalignment in an XR experience influences participants’ experience, engagement and immersion.

The journey of creating a VR experience prototype with physical, kinetic sets and using it to explore how sensory alignment and misalignment alters the participants’ level of immersion and engagement with the medium.

Sharing of findings about the needs of different bodies in XR experiences; how different bodies prioritize different senses and what does this mean when designing for a multisensory XR experience.

Open discussion and knowledge exchange about:

The role of participants when entering an XR multisensory experience in relation to the story, materials and scale.

Bridging reality and virtuality to engage with XR environments with more senses than vision and hearing, combining the wealth and uniqueness of real-life multisensory interaction with the possibilities that immersive technologies and storytelling can unlock.

Collaborative activity: Together, participants will explore sensory alignment and misalignment and the language around describing and communicating sensory related content.

The Pervasive Media Studio is wheelchair accessible, has tea and coffee making facilities and a quiet room.

We can support those interested but may have access costs; childcare, travel etc. Please get in touch at artf-cct@bristol.ac.uk once you have a ticket.

Experiencing VR with Alternative Senses