Arregui, Harbil and Krejci, Patrick and Loyo, Estibaliz and Otaegui, Oihana (2014) Multilayer Information Management System for personalized urban pedestrian routing. REAL CORP 2014 – PLAN IT SMART! Clever Solutions for Smart Cities. Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society. pp. 915-919.
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Abstract
The present paper aims to describe the work carried out inside the ARGUS project to design and develop a software tool that manages heterogeneous cartographical datasets in order to offer personalized routing services. The project is focused on guiding blind and visually impaired in urban and rural environments with the help of binaural sounds. The navigation algorithm in the ARGUS smartphone application relies on GPX tracks containing the path to follow and informative points of interest along the path. These GPX files, previously recorded or created on demand, are downloaded from the remote service platform where the Multilayer Information Management System is hosted. This module handles, on one hand, crowdsourced data from OpenStreetMap and ARGUS users and, on the other hand, cartography from individual city providers. Moreover the system defines a set of spatial attributes to categorize the most relevant and signifcant types of urban elements for the target user group, which are represented as geographical point or lines, enabling users to decide which type of objects have a positive effect such as tactile pavements, negative or neutral effect during the trace of a path. This user specified aproach affect the route finding by changing the routing weights. Different levels of visual impairment and skills from one user to another, as well as personal preferences, make this module a decisive configurable abstraction layer for the route calculation module.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | multilayer, pedestrian, routing, visually impaired, ARGUS Project |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GA Mathematical geography. Cartography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Depositing User: | REAL CORP Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2016 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2016 11:15 |
| URI: | http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/211 |
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