People Helping Computers Helping People: Navigation for People with Mobility Problems by Sharing Accessibility Annotations

Holone, Harald; Misund, Gunnar

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_164

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“…There are many related research projects proposed to improve accessible travelling for PwD, such as U-Access [9], OurWay [6], Accessibility Maps [3] and [8]. According to the review of related projects and work, there have been some problems identified [4].…”

Section: Problems and Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

Ding

Wald

Wills

2015

Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference

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With the aim of addressing the gap between users' needs of accessible travelling and complex environmental barriers of physical places in the real world, this paper summarizes the research of investigating the use of Linked Data principles for enhanced accessible travelling decision support. Firstly, this paper reviews current research and projects to identify some problems and challenges. Then a conceptual model and the reference architecture of Linked Data-driven decision support system (DSS) for accessible travelling are proposed to address such problems to enhance the accessible travelling for people with disabilities (PwD), especially for people with mobility difficulties. As a result, this research would not only benefit PwD, but also contribute to the research of a novel model to address accessibility information barriers by applying the Linked Data principles to DSSs for enhanced accessible travelling.

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Section: Problems and Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

Ding

Wald

Wills

2015

Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference

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“…In [29] the authors describe a platform that exploits crowdsourcing and crowdsensing to map outdoor accessibility elements in the urban environment. Another interesting work allows users to link accessibility annotations to geospatial data in order to compute a personalized route, considering the user's preferences and needs [30].…”

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“…We evaluated the possible impact of mPASS on a 60 users group (26 female, 34 male), with ages ranged from 19 to 68 (with an average value of 44), including blind people and people with low vision (30), wheelchair users and users with physical impairments (5), deaf and hard of hearing users (1) and elderly people (15). The whole group has stated to be interested in personalized routing services while only the 50% was specifically interested in accessible paths.…”

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Mapping urban accessibility: gamifying the citizens’ experience

Prandi¹,

Nisi²,

Salomoni³

et al. 2015

ICST Transactions on Ambient Systems

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In this paper we present the design process and some interesting field t r ial r e sults o f t w o d i fferent game applications, designed and developed in order to extend and motivate the community of mPASS. mPASS is an urban accessibility mapping system that allows citizens to collect reliable data about barriers and facilities via crowdsourcing and crowdsensing and it uses these data to calculate accessible paths. On the one hand mPASS needs to collect a sufficiently dense, detailed and trustworthy amount of data. On the other hand, the community interested in obtaining accessible paths is not big enough to reach the critical mass of information needed by the system in order to provide effective services. To overcome this problem, we investigated gamification strategies in designing two mobile applications targeting young adults walkers, aimed to enlarge the data contributors community. The design process and field trial results of both games are presented, highlighting the design decisions resulted from feedback sessions, focus groups and experience prototyping.

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“…Solutions have been proposed by researchers to support mobility-impaired pedestrians through specifically designed route generators Holone and Misund 2008;Kasemsuppakorn and Karimi 2009;Beale et al 2006;Sobek and Miller 2006]. However, these solutions are based either on the existence of accessibility information related to each road, or on the active participation of users that should create and augment geospatial data.…”

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Entertainment beyond divertissment

2011

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Computer games today represent one of the most important businesses in the IT industry, as well as one of the prominent means of entertainment chosen by children and adults. Their popularity in the contemporary world society has led many researchers to think how they could be put to good use to improve the education of players engaged in a game. In this work we present a game that goes beyond this paradigm, which is centered on single persons and pervasively relies on players to pursue a service that may be useful to a community as a whole. The game we here propose collects and processes information about the accessibility of city roads to build paths that may be approached by people with impairments. Players that join the game are rewarded by gaining points and positions in the game ranking for each reliable piece of information they provide. Accessible paths, built taking into account such information, can be accessed through a Google Maps-like service which computes the shortest and safest path, for a person with a certain degree of disability, between any two given origin-destination points.

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People Helping Computers Helping People: Navigation for People with Mobility Problems by Sharing Accessibility Annotations

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

Mapping urban accessibility: gamifying the citizens’ experience

Entertainment beyond divertissment

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