Mapping City Accessibility: Review and Analysis

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:217:325-31.

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of prototypes, studies, and applications for the mapping of city accessibility, focusing mainly on sidewalks accessibility. Moreover, it presents the results of two focus groups that we organized both with electric and with manual wheelchairs to attain requirements and insights to design a user-friendly app for the collection and visualization of information about the accessibility of urban pedestrian pathways.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Architectural Accessibility* / methods
  • Architectural Accessibility* / standards
  • Cities*
  • Environment Design
  • Humans
  • Software*
  • Wheelchairs