Abstract
Although the rapid progress of real-world accessibility improvements affects the migration pathway of people with mild/severe visual/physical impairments to their destination, up-to-date accessibility information is difficult to obtain quickly because of delays to open information for public and local disclosure. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive system that appropriately acquires and arranges scattered accessibility information, and then presents this information intuitively. However, these systems present volunteers with difficulties when they are gathering accessibility conditions and then arranging them. In this work, our goal is to extract the elements that enable accessibility-sharing applications to collect real-world conditions efficiently. Particularly, we developed a smartphone-based application for sharing accessibility conditions and carried out events to share accessibility information in cooperation with a local volunteer group.
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This material is based on work funded by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) #15K16394, the 45th Grants for Social Welfare Activities from the Mitsubishi Foundation #26326, and S-innovation (Strategic Promotion of Innovative Research and Development) funding under Industry Academia Collaborative R&D Programs administered by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Special thanks are due to the members of the Matching Hongo and the Hongo Ikinuki Kôbô for logistical assistance, and to Miwa Murayama, the members of Collaboration Promotion Section, Civic Affairs Division, Civic Affairs Department, Bunkyo City and the Bunkyo Social Innovation Platform for their great help.
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Miura, T. et al. (2016). Sharing Real-World Accessibility Conditions Using a Smartphone Application by a Volunteer Group. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_36
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