Aspects of personal navigation with collaborative user feedback

A Pilot Study of Collaborative Accessibility

“…The OurWay system [12] generates routes based on users' ratings for the accessibility feature of a route segment, but only allows for three simple rating levels: good, uncomfortable and inaccessible. Specifically, the RouteCheckr system [22] considers user contributed annotated data as multiple criteria ratings in term of length, safety, and accessibility, while calculating routes for mobility impaired pedestrians.…”

Was it worth the hassle?

“…Examples of this include the work of Alsos and Dabelow [2] who carried out a usability evaluation of three PDA based medication systems in a full-scale model of a section of a hospital ward allowing them to effectively collect data from 56 simulated ward rounds with 14 physicians. In a similar manner, Holone et al [21] evaluate an indoor navigation system for wheelchair users in a "close to real world setting" by turning two floors of a building into a controlled environment that could be observed by the researchers. In the work of Vastenburg et al [60] evaluations were carried out in a dedicated living room laboratory simulating a home environment.…”

Negotiating privacy boundaries in social applications for accessibility mapping

“…The level of accessibility experienced by the user must also be recorded. In previous research, we have observed that it is largely inaccessibility which is recorded, and mostly when users have to provide feedback in order to get an alternative route from the route planner [10]. This might change, though, if such a collaborative navigator is used in a campaign setting.…”