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Traveling to Unknown Buildings: Accessibility Features for Indoor Maps

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP-AAATE 2022)

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Abstract

Traveling independently to unknown buildings is difficult for people with disabilities, as there is a lack of information about accessibility of indoor environments. In particular, there are hardly any freely available indoor maps of public buildings. In this paper, we address the problem that there is no comprehensive list of information relevant to people with disabilities in indoor environments, which in turn can be used for indoor orientation and navigation systems.

We therefore collected in an extensive literature review around 820 indoor accessibility features relevant for people with disabilities. These were categorized and sorted in a database and mapped to OSM and A11yJSON. The database is publicly available and can serve as a basis for tag proposals to OSM, and as Linked Data (RDF).

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    https://services.access.kit.edu/accessibility-features.

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    https://a11yjson.org/ Retrieved on 23 June 2021.

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We would like to thank Hanna Henke, Vanessa Petrausch and Gerhard Jaworek. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) under the grant number 01KM151112.

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    Angela Constantinescu, Karin Müller & Rainer Stiefelhagen

  2. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Claudia Loitsch

  3. Sozialhelden e.V., Berlin, Germany

    Sebastian Zappe

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Constantinescu, A., Müller, K., Loitsch, C., Zappe, S., Stiefelhagen, R. (2022). Traveling to Unknown Buildings: Accessibility Features for Indoor Maps. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08648-9_26

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