Published Research

Craig Anderton, Chris Creed, Sayan Sarcar, and Arthur Theil. 2024. From Teleportation to Climbing: A Review of Locomotion Techniques in the Most Used Commercial Virtual Reality Applications. In International Journal of Human- Computer Interaction, 41 (4), 1946–1966. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2372151 (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton, Chris Creed, Sayan Sarcar, and Arthur Theil. 2025. Asleep at the Virtual Wheel: The Increasing Inaccessibility of Virtual Reality Applications. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713558 (opens in a new tab)

Arthur Theil, Craig Anderton, Chris Creed, Nasrine Olson, Raymond John Holt, and Sayan Sarcar. 2023. Accessibility Research and Users with Multiple Disabilities or Complex Needs. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 109, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3615651 (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2022. Investigating Sign Language Interpreter Rendering and Guiding Methods in Virtual Reality 360-Degree Content. In The 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 89, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3563373 (opens in a new tab)

Wenge Xu, Craig Anderton, Kurtis Weir, and Arthur Theil. 2025. Conducting VR User Studies with People with Vision/Hearing Impairments: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies. In CHI '25 workshop W18: The Third Workshop on Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All, 26 April 2025, Yokohama, Japan. 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.07256 (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2023. Sign language interpreter presentation in virtual reality. In BATOD Association Magazine

Craig Anderton. 2026. Takeaways from User Studies Exploring Non-visual VR Guidance and Navigation. Doctoral Lightning Talk at the 3rd ACM Europe Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2025. Navigating PhD research as an autistic student. Invited talk at MINDS Workshop (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2025. Designing Haptic Cues for Sensory Augmentation in Virtual Reality. Doctoral Lightning Talk at the 2nd ACM Europe Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2025. Asleep at the Virtual Wheel: The Increasing Inaccessibility of Virtual Reality Applications. Talk presented and doctoral consortium attended at South-West UK Pre-CHI 2025 (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2024. Accessibility Factors in 330 of the Most Used VR Apps. Student volunteer and poster presented at the ACM Europe Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2023. How Commercial Virtual Reality Developers Implement Haptic Feedback. Talk and demo presented at Haptics for Inclusion Symposium (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2023. How Do Virtual Reality Developers Implement Accessibility Considerations? Talk at Accessibility Research and Users with Multiple Disabilities or Complex Needs Workshop at ASSETS '23 (opens in a new tab)

Craig Anderton. 2023. VR handheld controller haptic feedback demo. Poster and demo presented at UX Day 2023

Craig Anderton. 2022. Investigating Sign Language Interpreter Rendering and Guiding Methods in Virtual Reality 360-Degree Content. Poster presented at PG XPO 2022

I AM BCU Awards - Researcher of the Year Nomination. April 2025. Birmingham City University (opens in a new tab)

SRC Graduate Gold Medal. October 2022. The 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22) (opens in a new tab)

PG XPO 1st Place. September 2022. Birmingham City University School of Computing