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Accessibility and Usability Standards on Built Environment Design: Struggle Toward Agreement in the Global Context

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Advances in Industrial Design (AHFE 2021)

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Differences in accessibility requirements on the built environment have existed between countries for years. Proposal of their international standardization started in 2001 within ISO, which resulted in publishing the first version in 2011. However, some of the issues were left undone due to time limit. After five years of their use, working group discussion on the revision started for improvement, with several changes and additions proposed to be introduced. How far are we successful in attaining the goal during the revision stage? This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities we have been faced with.

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The present paper is based on the impression and contemplation the author has accumulated during the discussion of ISO/TC59/SC16 and WG1. Commitment to WG1 is based on personal capacity, and not on the interests of the country of one’s own.

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    Satoshi Kose

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  2. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  3. System Design and Management, Keio University, Musashino, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  4. DAAP School of Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Yong-Gyun Ghim

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Cristina Carvalho

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Kose, S. (2021). Accessibility and Usability Standards on Built Environment Design: Struggle Toward Agreement in the Global Context. In: Shin, C.S., Di Bucchianico, G., Fukuda, S., Ghim , YG., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_34

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