Interpreting Universal Mobility in the Footpaths of Urban India Based on Experts’ Opinion

Mahapatra, Gaurab Das; Mori, Suguru; Nomura, Rie

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“…(1) Lack of proper footpath-for able-bodied people, and (2) Encroachment by Vendors-for specially abled people. 26 Also, visual observations by the authors reflect that the present condition of the case area is not adequate for pedestrians, and the issue of universal mobility seems like a daunting task.…”

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“…Thus, understanding the adjacent building's use is one of the primary considerations of the research methodology for this paper. In relation to this, research work in a similar case area, titled “Interpreting Universal Mobility in the Footpaths of Urban India Based on Experts' Opinion,” has concluded that the greatest problem in walkability is as follows: (1) Lack of proper footpath—for able‐bodied people, and (2) Encroachment by Vendors—for specially abled people 26 . Also, visual observations by the authors reflect that the present condition of the case area is not adequate for pedestrians, and the issue of universal mobility seems like a daunting task.…”

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Evaluating the accessibility of old cities: Case of Central Kolkata, India

Mahapatra

Mori

Nomura

2023

Japan Architectural Review

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Old Indian cities are often less accessible due to temporal restrictions and ever‐rising pedestrian volume. In this research, the accessibility of the footpath‐level walkability condition of old core cities has been assessed through Architectural Planning Research, considering 32 footpath stretches in Central Kolkata, India, as a case. The research has considered 3 data sets, (a) 257 experts' opinions about universal mobility, (b) 18 variables for assessing accessibility conditions, and (c) peak hour pedestrian volume. IBM® SPSS® Statistics 26.0 version has been used to validate the findings of the research. It was found that mixed‐use buildings demarcate the edge of the footpaths in old cities. 50.6% of Indian experts have prioritized the “dimension of the footpath” while assessing universal mobility for pedestrians in the old cities of India. The average accessibility percentage for the entire surveyed stretch is negative which highlights the poor accessibility of the stretch. Pearson's correlation between footpath width and infrastructure score of 0.535 signifies the width of a footpath plays a significant role in determining the level of footpath infrastructure. Thus, the findings of this research can be used while preparing accessibility development plans for the study area and other areas of a similar genre. In this research, the accessibility of the footpath‐level walkability condition of old core cities has been assessed through Architectural Planning Research, considering Central Kolkata, India, as a case. The findings of this research prove the relationship between footpath width and the footpath infrastructure.

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Evaluating the accessibility of old cities: Case of Central Kolkata, India

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Mori

Nomura

2023

Japan Architectural Review

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“…India presents classic examples of cities with historic and degraded pedestrian areas. Transformation dynamics have played a major role in the complex urban structure of historic Indian cities, which, in turn, have often created unfavorable pedestrian conditions [13]. In the aforementioned sentence, the term 'complex' specifically refers to conditions such as (a) minimal temporal changes in the centers of historic cities, (b) organic mixed-use development, and (c) encroached footpaths.…”

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Reviewing the Universal Mobility of the Footpaths in the Centers of Historic Indian Cities through Field Survey

2023

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In this research, the condition of universal mobility, in the centers of historic Indian cities, has been critically analyzed. Implementing universal design guidelines (especially universal mobility standards) in the centers of historic Indian cities is comparatively challenging, due to the high-density, ever-increasing population, and organic urban development. The rising number of elderly and specially abled people also add a demographic challenge to universal mobility. The focus of this research is to understand the extent to which universal mobility guidelines can be implemented in the centers of historic Indian cities. The dataset for this research is derived from a field survey of 69 footpath stretches from the centers of 5 historic cities in India, namely Jaipur, Jodhpur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Footpath stretches in the centers of these historic cities were evaluated based on several factors pertaining to universally designed infrastructure and universal mobility features. Such comprehensive research on universal mobility in footpaths of historic Indian cities has not been previously conducted. The findings of this research indicate the poor condition of universal mobility in the studied areas. Furthermore, the results can be useful for assessing the extent of implementation of universal mobility in the centers of other historic Indian cities.

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“…Accessibility is more concerned with people with severe disabilities and hearing impairments, which also includes a segment of the elderly population. Early on, these designs were referred to as disability design, which was determined to be a negative term and discriminatory [13]. The ISO 71 (2001) standard interprets accessibility as a design standard that extends to people with limited abilities and facilitates their use of the product [14].…”

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Multimodal Interaction Evaluation and Optimization Design of Smart Landscape Devices for Elderly People in Seaside Parks

Yuan,

Zhang,

Kim

2023

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With the rapid development of science and technology, an era of intelligence has started in people’s lives, and intelligent robots, intelligent home systems, intelligent parking systems and other products of intelligent technologies have been quietly applied to all aspects of modern life. Experiential and interactive media landscape installations based on intelligent technologies have also been introduced into seaside parks in this context. Intelligent technologies are utilized to innovate traditional landscape installations, break the traditional limitations of thinking, and change the way of interaction between landscape installations and the public in seaside parks. Thus, the public can create an interesting connection with the landscape installations to enhance the participation and experience of the public. Emotion recognition, as an integral part of AI, has received more and more attention from experts and scholars at home and abroad. The landscape installations in domestic seaside parks are becoming more and more intelligent, and are customized to meet the needs of special target groups, such as the elderly. In this paper, the intelligent setting of landscape installations is investigated using multimodal interaction. First, it explains in detail the multimodal interaction, landscape installations, and intelligence. It innovatively combines experiential and interactive media landscape installations based on intelligent technologies with seaside city parks and analyzes and summarizes the cases in China and abroad. Furthermore, it explores how interactive media landscape installations work in different seaside parks, and examines how they are designed and technically implemented. At the same time, a plan is formulated to optimize the landscape installations for different groups of people in the seaside parks. Finally, the key points for optimizing the design of intelligent landscape installations for the elderly are proposed, and experiments are conducted to analyze how the design of multimodal interaction enhances the consumption perceptions of the elderly consumer groups. The experiment demonstrates the superiority of multimodal interaction for intelligent landscape installations.

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Interpreting Universal Mobility in the Footpaths of Urban India Based on Experts’ Opinion

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluating the accessibility of old cities: Case of Central Kolkata, India

Evaluating the accessibility of old cities: Case of Central Kolkata, India

Reviewing the Universal Mobility of the Footpaths in the Centers of Historic Indian Cities through Field Survey

Multimodal Interaction Evaluation and Optimization Design of Smart Landscape Devices for Elderly People in Seaside Parks

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