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\n\n\n\n\u201cExtended reality (XR) devices like Apple\u2019s recently announced Vision Pro or Meta\u2019s Oculus Quest 3 enable new possibilities for mixing the real world with a computationally generated one, promising to \u201cchange interaction as we know it.\u201d Yet, there is little research on exactly how XR might reshape bodily subjectivity and experience. Probing XR\u2019s Futures utilizes a critically-historically informed, practice-based design approach to examines how XR technologies reimagine bodily subjectivity, interaction and experience, on the one hand, and how bodily experience could reimagine XR, on the other. The 4-year project employs critical, creative, conceptual and empirical approaches to address three questions: How is everyday interaction in XR achieved? How will XR change interaction and what social reciprocity and mutual access will be enabled? What concrete effects and forms of discipline will be enacted on disabled bodies interacting in XR? The objective is to use design fiction, a design research method that prototypes objects and scenarios to provoke new ways of thinking about the future, as a form of critical inquiry to probe the present and future of social interaction in XR in three different settings and contexts: the lab, public space and in collaboration with disabled researchers and communities. Situated at the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts, the project is at the interdisciplinary intersection of Critical VR studies, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and experimental media design. It will constitute one of the first in the context of Swiss and German speaking design research to develop alternative thinking and experimental aesthetic-design analysis, reflection and critique of XR directly in situated action and use with the general public.
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Christopher Salter (Project Lead)
Philippe Sormani (Senior Researcher)
Puneet Jain (PhD Candidate)
Chris Elvis Leisi (Researcher)
Oliver Sahli (Researcher)
Stella Speziali (Researcher)
Pascal Lund-Jensen (Researcher)
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Andreas Uebelbacher (Access for All Foundation)
John David Howes (Concordia University Montreal, Sociology\/Anthropology)
Sabine Himmelsbach (Haus der elektronischen K\u00fcnste Basel, HeK)
Pilar Orero (Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Transmedia Research Group)
Lorenza Mondada (Universit\u00e4t Basel, Institut f\u00fcr Franz\u00f6sische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft)
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project, 2023-2027 JOB OFFER : student assistant position 15% , fixed-term from May to December 2026Send your applications to immersive.arts@zhdk.ch, deadline is 27.04.2026 \u201cExtended reality (XR) devices like Apple\u2019s recently announced Vision Pro or Meta\u2019s Oculus Quest 3 enable new possibilities for mixing the real world with a computationally generated … <\/p>\n
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