Color Blindness Bartender: An Embodied VR Game Experience

Color blindness is a very common condition, as almost one in ten people have some level of color blindness or visual impairment. However, there are many tasks in daily life that require the abilities of color recognition and visual discrimination. In order to understand the inconvenience that color-blind people experience in daily life, we developed a virtual reality (VR) application that provides the sense of embodiment of a color-blind person. Specifically, we designed a color-based task for users to complete under different types of color blindness in which users make colorful cocktails for customers and need to switch between different color blindness modalities of the application to distinguish different colors. Our application aims to embody users to color blindness in order to raise awareness on such color vision deficiency.