EASY READ SOFTWARE FOR PUBLIC TIMETABLES AND MAPS

易于阅读的公共时间表和地图软件

• 批准号: 6141692
• 负责人: Ronni Susan Sterns
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: CREATIVE ACTION, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-30 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6141692
• 关键词: aging; cognition; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; data collection methodology /evaluation; information dissemination; travel

Market potential exists for developing software to produce public transportation information that meets cognitive needs of older adults. Transit authorities and design services purchase software to produce system timetables, maps and other passenger information. Riders and potential riders have difficulty understanding and using existing passenger information. Transit software users want information that encourages ridership. Currently, information hinders transit use by older adults, who may require public transportation to maintain independence. The proposed research will determine psychological and physical dimensions affecting performance across the life-span in understanding and using passenger information. Phase I research will develop an understanding of unmet information needs perceived by transportation providers, transit users and nonusers; conduct laboratory testing among riders and nonriders to understand the psychological and physical dimensions of effective passenger information use; and develop design criteria for timetables and maps. Phase II research will apply Phase I findings to develop prototypes for field-testing by older and younger riders and nonriders; subsequent development of design criteria for passenger information that can be effectively used by adults and older adults; and development of computer software that puts the design criteria into practice for transit authorities. In Phase III, software will be marketed to transit authorities nationwide. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: Strong market potential exists for the development of public transportation information that meets the cognitive and physical needs of older adults. Over 600 transit authorities, including Forth Worth, TX, Youngstown, OH, Richmond, VA, Memphis, TN, and Atlanta, GA are interested in purchasing software for public timetables, route maps and other public transportation information for effective use by adult and older adult riders. Currently available public information software does not meet the information needs of transit users.

开发软件来生成满足老年人认知需求的公共交通信息存在市场潜力。交通当局和设计服务部门购买软件来生成系统时间表、地图和其他乘客信息。乘客和潜在乘客很难理解和使用现有的乘客信息。交通软件用户需要能够鼓励乘客出行的信息。目前，信息阻碍了老年人使用交通，他们可能需要公共交通来保持独立。拟议的研究将确定影响整个生命周期理解和使用乘客信息表现的心理和身体维度。第一阶段的研究将加深对交通提供商、交通用户和非用户所感知到的未满足信息需求的理解；对乘客和非乘客进行实验室测试，以了解有效使用乘客信息的心理和身体维度；并制定时间表和地图的设计标准。第二阶段研究将应用第一阶段的研究结果来开发原型，供年长和年轻的骑手和非骑手进行现场测试；随后制定可供成年人和老年人有效使用的乘客信息设计标准；开发计算机软件，将设计标准付诸交通当局的实践。在第三阶段，软件将向全国交通当局销售。拟议的商业应用：满足老年人认知和身体需求的公共交通信息的开发存在巨大的市场潜力。超过 600 个交通当局，包括德克萨斯州沃思堡、俄亥俄州扬斯敦、弗吉尼亚州里士满、田纳西州孟菲斯和佐治亚州亚特兰大，有兴趣购买公共时间表、路线图和其他公共交通信息的软件，以便成人和老年乘客有效使用。目前现有的公共信息软件并不能满足公交用户的信息需求。