Abstract
Crowdsourcing has the potential to become a preferred tool to rate the accessibility of the built environment and appeal preferences of users who are persons with disabilities (PwDs). Nevertheless, some reliability issues still exist, partially due to the subjectivity of ratings of accessibility features of places that might vary from one PwD to another or their caregivers. In this paper, we present a descriptive overview of existing crowdsourcing applications and the accessibility features that are included in such platforms as well as the diffusion, and popularity of these platforms. We also present several use cases and scenarios of use for these platforms via user populations.
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We thank the Humanistic Co-Design Initiative at MIT and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab for supporting this work. We also thank the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) and the Saudi Health Council’s National Lab for Emerging Health Technologies for hosting and mentoring this work. This work is part of the authors’ project that is carried out under the CoCreate Fellowship for Humanistic Co-Design of Access Technologies.
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Alqadi, R., Alhowaiti, M., Almohaimeed, F., Alsabban, M., Raviselvam, S. (2020). Crowdsourcing Accessibility: A Review of Platforms, Mobile Applications and Tools. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60703-6_2
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