Improving public transit accessibility for blind riders by crowdsourcing bus stop landmark locations with Google street view

• Main Authors: Kotaro HARA, AZENKOT, Shiri, CAMPBELL, Megan, BENNETT, Cynthia L., LE, Vicki, PANNELLA, Sean, MOORE, Robert, MINCKLER, Kelly, NG, Rochelle H., FROEHLICH, Jon E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4006; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5008/viewcontent/Hara_ImprovingPublicTransitAccessibilityForBlindRidersByCrowdsourcingBusStopLandmarkLocationsWithGoogleStreetView_ASSETS2013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Low-vision and blind bus riders often rely on known physicallandmarks to help locate and verify bus stop locations (e.g., bysearching for a shelter, bench, newspaper bin). However, there arecurrently few, if any, methods to determine this information apriori via computational tools or services. In t...