SCC-IRG Track 2: CityGuide: Seamless and Inclusive Location-Based Services for Communities

SCC-IRG 第 2 轨道：CityGuide：为社区提供无缝、包容性的基于位置的服务

• 批准号: 2409227
• 负责人: Vinod Namboodiri
• 金额: $ 112.27万
• 依托单位: Lehigh University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-12-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2409227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; IRG; Track; CityGuide; Seamless

Persons with disabilities in our communities often find it difficult to achieve and maintain an independent and high quality of life. A significant cause of this issue is the challenge in independently accessing locations and services within the community. In spite of advances in global positioning system (GPS)-enabled applications, there are many daily-life scenarios where the lack of adequate location-based services presents mobility and access challenges to persons with disabilities. The long-term vision for this project is to design, deploy, evaluate, and refine an inclusive community-wide system (accessed through a smartphone app) called CityGuide that provides various auxiliary location-based services (ALBSs) for people with disabilities (and the general population), complementing satellite-based GPS systems. CityGuide will provide a core wayfinding application as a service with the twin capabilities of exploration and navigation. Building upon this core wayfinding service, numerous other applications can be built; some specific applications of interest within the scope of the project are: emergency evacuation, remote assistance, and transit. This project attempts to use a common technology infrastructure to simultaneously serve the auxiliary wayfinding needs of people with a broad range of disabilities. The top-level goal of using technology to improve accessibility in communities naturally requires integrative socio-technical research contributions that advances knowledge on multiple fronts. From a technology design perspective, the project advances knowledge about providing seamless and scalable indoor and outdoor location-based services. From an information design perspective, the project advances knowledge about contextually appropriate cues and content for a variety of location-based applications. From a human-computer interaction perspective, the project advances knowledge in applying universal design principles towards accessing location-based services. From an economic analysis perspective, the project advances knowledge about the impact of economies of scope and scale in the feasibility and sustainability of accessibility technologies in small to medium-sized communities. Expected societal impacts from the project include the development of wayfinding technologies (and associated tech transfer) that provides people with disabilities and also the general population a useful tool to increase their independence, and thus, quality of life; and creation of a model for other similar future efforts (beyond wayfinding) to address the need for greater inclusivity in how various community-based services are accessed.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

我们社区的残疾人往往难以实现和维持独立和高质量的生活。造成这一问题的一个重要原因是独立访问社区内的位置和服务方面的挑战。尽管全球定位系统的应用取得了进展，但在许多日常生活场景中，缺乏适当的基于位置的服务给残疾人的行动和无障碍带来了挑战。该项目的长期愿景是设计、部署、评估和完善一个名为CityGuide的包容性社区系统（通过智能手机应用程序访问），该系统为残疾人（和普通人群）提供各种辅助定位服务（ALBS），补充基于卫星的GPS系统。CityGuide将提供一个核心的寻路应用程序作为一项服务，具有探索和导航的双重功能。在这个核心寻路服务的基础上，可以构建许多其他应用程序;项目范围内的一些特定应用程序包括：紧急疏散，远程援助和交通。该项目试图使用一种通用的技术基础设施，同时满足各种残疾人的辅助寻路需求。利用技术改善社区无障碍环境的最高目标自然需要综合社会技术研究的贡献，在多个方面推进知识。从技术设计的角度来看，该项目推进了有关提供无缝和可扩展的室内和室外基于位置的服务的知识。从信息设计的角度来看，该项目推进了关于各种基于位置的应用程序的上下文适当的线索和内容的知识。从人机交互的角度来看，该项目在应用通用设计原则访问基于位置的服务方面取得了进展。从经济分析的角度来看，该项目增进了关于范围经济和规模经济对中小型社区无障碍技术的可行性和可持续性的影响的知识。该项目的预期社会影响包括寻路技术的开发（以及相关的技术转让），为残疾人和普通民众提供一个有用的工具，以提高他们的独立性，从而提高生活质量;并为今后的其他类似努力建立一个模式（除了寻路），以解决更大的包容性的需要，在如何不同的社区-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。