Experience Atypical Bodies

An interactive piece based on experiencing some element of living with atypical bodies to get through everyday tasks. For instance, check out material at the library: without vision, without being able to hear/speak, while being of small stature, while being unable to use your arms, walking very slowly and unable to use the stairs, etc.

It could be interesting to at first have NPCs that do not notice you even when you select to interact or ask for assistance, and to have no assistive devices or information available at the space (library in this case). Then have a round where you have accessibility options present and certain NPCs, like the staff, will be able to help, while other NPC may not be ones you can engage with, but they will notice you and not just bump into you or let the doors shut on you, etc..

This could be accomplished with VR and the Kinect or Neuron which could then detect lack of motion etc to make sure the user was doing it properly — following the constraints.