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Scalable methods to collect and visualize sidewalk accessibility data for people with mobility impairments

Author(s) -

Kotaro Hara

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

acm sigaccess accessibility and computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1558-2337

pISSN - 1558-1187

DOI - 10.1145/2809904.2809912

Subject(s) - computer science , scalability , human–computer interaction , a priori and a posteriori , data science , visually impaired , world wide web , multimedia , database , philosophy , epistemology

Poorly maintained sidewalks pose considerable accessibility challenges for mobility impaired persons; however, there are currently few, if any, mechanisms to determine accessible areas of a city a priori. In this paper, I introduce four threads of research that I will conduct for my Ph.D. thesis aimed at creating new methods and tools to provide unprecedented levels of information on the accessibility of streets and sidewalk.

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