Abstract:In our aging society, the elderly's mobility has become critical for our collective prosperity. However, the elderly's mobility is limited in the current built environment due to various types of environmental barriers. Manual surveys have been conducted to detect such environmental barriers, but they are discontinuous, invasive to the elderly's daily lives, and labour-intensive. As such, these methods are not ideal for wider adoption. To continuously, less-invasively, and less-laboriously detect the environme… Show more
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