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Type of Project: Funded project
AccessibleMaps - Barrier-free maps to improve occupational mobility

Description / Topics

Goal: The aim of the AccessibleMaps project is to improve the spatial mobility of people with blindness or mobility impairments in the professional context and thus to enable equal participation in working life and in vocational education and training. Digital maps of buildings, which also contain information about their accessibility, are an essential prerequisite for better navigation, an overview and security. Up to now, the creation of barrier-free building maps has only been possible with considerable manual effort. This problem is addressed in the AccessibleMaps project. Approach: By using innovative image processing methods, accessibility features are collected and supplemented in automatically digitized building maps. The type of features collected, their required quality and use will be determined together with those affected and evaluated in pilot studies with the target groups. The generated maps are made available in a barrier-free web application. The information on the maps should be individually adaptable to the current situation and the needs of the target group. Thus, all relevant route information can be researched independently, routes can be planned or a barrier-free representation of the building maps can be created in order to use them visually, tactilely or in spoken form at home or during the journey.

Start:

1 Sep 2019


End:

31 Aug 2022


Grant Number:

01KM151112

Funded by:

  • Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) aus Mitteln des Ausgleichsfonds für überregionale Vorhaben zur Teilhabe schwerbehinderter Menschen am Arbeitsleben

ICF Reference of the Project:

  • The ICF is used, e.g. through the use of ICF-based instruments / scales to describe examination variables, process documentation, outcome measurement.

Project Management:

  • Weber, Gerhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. |
  • Stiefelhagen, Rainer, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Employees:

  • Loitsch, Claudia, Dr.-Ing. |
  • Engel, Christin |
  • Schmalfuß-Schwarz, Jan |
  • Striegl, Julian |
  • Müller, Karin, Dr. |
  • Constantinescu, Angela |
  • Yang, Kailun, PhD. |
  • Petrausch, Vanessa |
  • Jaworek, Gerhard |
  • Melfi, Giuseppe

Institutions:

Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Informatik, Institut für Angewandte Informatik
Professur für Mensch-Computer Interaktion
Helmholtzstr. 10
01069 Dresden
0351 463-38477
gerhard.weber@tu-dresden.de
https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/ai/mci/forschung/forsc...

Ansprechpersonen:
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gerhard Weber (Gesamtkoordination, Technische Universität Dresden),
Dr.-Ing. Claudia Loitsch, Christin Engel, Jan Schmalfuß-Schwarz, Julian Striegl

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Zentrum für digitale Barrierefreiheit und Assistive Technologien
https://www.access.kit.edu/

Ansprechpersonen:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Stiefelhagen (Kooperationspartner, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie),
Dr. Karin Müller, Angela Constantinescu, Kailun Yang, PhD., Vanessa Petrausch, Gerhard Jaworek, Giuseppe Melfi

Reference Number:

R/FO125898


Last Update: 3 Nov 2023