GAWA – Manager for accessibility Wayfinding apps

Rodriguez‐Sanchez, M. C.; Martínez-Romo, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.05.011

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“…The results are shown in a graphic, visual and intuitive way to give to the user the power to choose the establishment which is more adequate to their requirements. In this sense, some authors have indicated that the filtering process is a key element in applications for people with a disability [42]. Furthermore, the app will not only be beneficial for users, but will also help improve awareness of accessibility in local businesses.…”

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Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops

Mayordomo-Martínez

Gea

Garcı́a-Mateos

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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People with motor disabilities must face many barriers and obstacles in their daily lives, making it difficult to perform everyday tasks. The purpose of this work is to improve their living conditions by providing an app with accessibility information in an updated, reliable and friendly form. The development of the system integrates national and regional accessibility regulations, architectural aspects, with an extensive field work, and a sustainable software process. The levels of accessibility and the requirements of the application are defined in the first phases of the project. The field work included the evaluation of 357 commercial establishments in the city of Murcia, Spain, showing that only 25% have a good accessibility, 40% are practicable with help, and 35% are inaccessible shops. The proposed system achieves its objectives of being sustainable and helping in the accessibility. Besides, the system can be a great incentive for businesses to improve their accessibility conditions. In conclusion, new technologies must have a much more active role in the promotion of universal accessibility. These tools must also consider the necessary requirements of sustainable development.

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Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops

Mayordomo-Martínez

Gea

Garcı́a-Mateos

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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“…A similar approach is adopted in [10], where the goal is making a university campus accessible to all students and visitors. All kinds of users are considered in [108], with a focus on public transportation, while only pedestrian paths in indoor and outdoor environments are taken into account in the GAWA project [121], which adopts UD and multi-modal interaction customized to users' characteristics.…”

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Accessible wayfinding and navigation: a systematic mapping study

Prandi

Mirri

Fogli

2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Urban environments, university campuses, and public and private buildings often present architectural barriers that prevent people with disabilities and special needs to move freely and independently. This paper presents a systematic mapping study of the scientific literature proposing devices, and software applications aimed at fostering accessible wayfinding and navigation in indoor and outdoor environments. We selected 111 out of 806 papers published in the period 2009–2020, and we analyzed them according to different dimensions: at first, we surveyed which solutions have been proposed to address the considered problem; then, we analyzed the selected papers according to five dimensions: context of use, target users, hardware/software technologies, type of data sources, and user role in system design and evaluation. Our findings highlight trends and gaps related to these dimensions. The paper finally presents a reflection on challenges and open issues that must be taken into consideration for the design of future accessible places and of related technologies and applications aimed at facilitating wayfinding and navigation.

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“…This is because to avoid signal interference from other sensors. Besides that, the laser ranging sensor is placed 15.2cm starting below the stick and configured to detect the front hole. The laser ranging sensor are placed 15.2cm higher because the higher the placement of the laser ranging sensor, the further the distance to detect a front hole.…”

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“…Inside the family unit condition, the primary constraints to dazzle individuals incorporate fundamental question identification concerning hindrance evasion and route. In other way, researchers were using smart phone to utilize its inertial sensor and GPS to assist blind people to navigate alone by building novel apps [14][15][16][17]. Additionally, there are few more works also seen in recent years to help the blind for indoor navigation using apps [18][19].…”

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Design and Analysis of a Smart Blind Stick for Visual Impairment

Yusof¹,

Billah²,

Kadir³

et al. 2018

IJEECS

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For a long time, visually impaired person uses a white cane to guide their way when travel outside. The white cane has been useful for the blinds in improving their mobility but unfortunately the white cane has its limitation. One of the shortcomings of the white cane is that, it could only detect the obstacles that are within the contact ranges of the white cane. This problem sometimes could cause the blind person to be in trouble because of insufficient time to detect and warn new obstacles in front of the blind person. This research proposes a walking stick system that has two functions; to classify an obstacles height whether it is low or high and to detect a front hole. The ability to detect the height of an obstacle will help the visually impaired to either step over or avoid the obstacle. The ability to detect a hole should help the visually impaired to avoid it in time. The walking stick will use two ultrasonic sensors for the detection of obstacle height, and a laser sensor for the detection of hole. A controller will be used to monitor and analyze the data from the sensors and feedback to the user through a vibration sensor and buzzer. The algorithm to differentiate the height of obstacles is working well and it is able to differentiate high or low obstacles. The laser ranging sensor has successfully been tested for hole detection. Therefore, the walking stick with ultrasonic and laser sensors will help more visually impaired to move around much faster and feeling more safer due to improved warning system for their movement.

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GAWA – Manager for accessibility Wayfinding apps

Cited by 37 publications

References 19 publications

Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops

Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops

Accessible wayfinding and navigation: a systematic mapping study

Design and Analysis of a Smart Blind Stick for Visual Impairment

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