LBS4all - Location-based Services for People with Mobility Problems
Principal researcher
Name: Prof. Helen Petrie
Project details
Start date: 01/08/2003
End date: 30/09/2006
Description: It aims to provide navigational help for people who have difficulty getting around and need to know the most accessible routes. This project ensures that people who have difficulty walking are adequately catered for in the design of national location-based services. A Global Position System (GPS) and smartphone technology will give people visual and text information about, for example, entry points in public buildings, crossings on roads and the "walkability" of different routes. GPS uses satellites to pinpoint your exact location and will be combined with the Ordnance Survey Mastermap, a digital product showing roads and routes. The Mastermap includes an "Integrated Transport Network" which is being developed to include paths and advice on pedestrian routes. The wearable smartphone will have a web browser which will connect to the Integrated Transport Network.
Other organisations involved in this project
City University, Department of Information Science
HumanITY
Kings College London, Department of Gerontology
Ordnance Survey
Funded by the EPSRC and DTI under the PAACIT initiative.
Last updated: 14/04/2008