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Accessible Adaptable Indoor Routing for People with Disabilities

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

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Abstract

For people with disabilities, indoor routing approaches have to take the specific requirements of the target user group into account. Depending on the needs of the individual, certain objects and indoor features can present insurmountable barriers and hence, should be avoided when generating indoor routes. Research in the field of indoor routing for people with disabilities has been going on for several years, but most approaches focus on one specific disability and do not evaluate designed systems with the target user group. Therefore, we propose an accessible, adaptable indoor routing algorithm for people with disabilities. The designed system is evaluated in a user study with people with blindness and mobility impairments using a Wizard of Oz approach. Results indicate a good acceptance of the designed routing system.

F. Lüders, J. Striegl and J. Schmalfuß-Schwarz—The authors contributed equally to this research.

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    Wheelmap.org, https://wheelmap.org/, Access date: 22.03.2022.

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    AccessibleMaps, https://www.accessiblemaps.de/, Access date: 22.03.2022.

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    OpenStreetMap.org, https://www.openstreetmap.org, Access date: 31.03.2022.

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    OpenLevelUp.net, https://openlevelup.net/#19/51.02546/13.72293, Access date: 31.03.2022.

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This work was partially funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) under the grant number 01KM151112.

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    Fabian Lüders, Julian Striegl, Jan Schmalfuß-Schwarz, Claudia Loitsch & Gerhard Weber

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Lüders, F., Striegl, J., Schmalfuß-Schwarz, J., Loitsch, C., Weber, G. (2022). Accessible Adaptable Indoor Routing for People with Disabilities. 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_20

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