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Citizen sensing for collaborative construction of accessibility maps

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W4A '13: Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

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In this demo we present IBM Sidewalks, a mobile application designed to facilitate the identification of accessibility issues in a city via crowdsourcing. This application connects to our Citizen Sensing platform, providing to city administrators an integrated view about issues in the city, such as sidewalks that are obstructed or in bad condition. If a representative amount of data is collected through people engagement, a significant number of issues will be registered, and analytics tools can be used to identify the impact these issues have on people with disabilities' lives. Consequently, we can use such information to build accessibility maps, and possibly to define an appropriate action plan to address the issues, optimizing resource allocation.

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Citizen sensing for collaborative construction of accessibility maps
1. Information systems
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2. Social and professional topics

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W4A '13: Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

May 2013

209 pages

ISBN:9781450318440

DOI:10.1145/2461121

General Chairs:
Giorgio Brajnik
University of Udine, Italy
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Paola Salomoni
University of Bologna, Italy

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