Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged urban accessibility.
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RouteCheckr: Personalized Multicriteria Routing for Mobility Impaired Pedestrians
This paper presents RouteCheckr, a client/server system for personalised pedestrian navigation that calculates routes optimised for multiple criteria relevant to mobility impaired users. The authors identify three key shortcomings of existing navigat…
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Autonomous Navigation through the City for the Blind
This paper presents a study on the use of an audio-based GPS navigation application designed to help blind people navigate independently through urban environments. The software, developed for PocketPC devices with Bluetooth GPS receivers, uses a clo…
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IncluCity: Using Contextual Cues to Raise Awareness on Environmental Accessibility
This paper investigates whether contextual cues — specifically photographs and precise location information — can make accessibility awareness campaigns more effective at changing public attitudes toward disability and environmental barriers. Traditi…
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Accessibility and The Crowded Sidewalk: Micromobility's Impact on Public Space
This paper examines how micromobility devices — e-scooters, dockless bikes, and autonomous personal delivery devices (PDDs) — impact the accessibility of public sidewalks and pathways for people with disabilities. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interv…
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A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility
This demonstration paper introduces Project Sidewalk, a web-based tool that enables anyone with an internet connection to remotely audit urban sidewalk accessibility by virtually walking through city streets using Google Street View. The tool address…
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Interactively Modeling and Visualizing Neighborhood Accessibility at Scale: An Initial Study of Washington DC
This poster paper from the University of Maryland and University of Washington presents two prototype tools — AccessScore and AccessVisDC — for modeling and visualizing neighborhood-level physical accessibility for people with mobility impairments. T…
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Accessibility and Smart Data: the Case Study of mPASS
This doctoral consortium paper presents mPASS (mobile Pervasive Accessibility Social Sensing), a research project from the University of Bologna that applies the concept of Smart Data to urban accessibility. The paper argues that while crowdsourcing …
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A Crowdsourcing Platform for the Construction of Accessibility Maps
This highly cited paper (69 citations) from IBM Research Brazil presents a comprehensive crowdsourcing platform for constructing outdoor accessibility maps through two complementary data collection approaches. The first, IBM Citizen Sensing, is an ac…
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Citizen Sensing for Collaborative Construction of Accessibility Maps
This demo paper presents IBM Sidewalks, a mobile application developed by IBM Research Brazil that enables citizens to collaboratively report physical accessibility issues in urban environments through crowdsourcing. The application is part of IBM's …
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Collaborative Accessibility Assessments by Senior Citizens Using Smartphone Application ReAcTS (Real-world Accessibility Transaction System)
This paper presents ReAcTS (Real-world Accessibility Transaction System), a smartphone application designed to enable senior citizen volunteers to collaboratively assess and share real-world physical accessibility conditions in their local communitie…