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© 2014 IBM Corporation
Promoting the Use of Accessible Mobile Technologies for the Workplace – Way finding Technologies
John Sanchez, Research Architect, IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center June 2014
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Agenda
• Overview
• What is Accessible Location Services?
• What is the Access My Campus mobile app?
• What is the architecture enabling the app?
• What is the land marking workflow?
• Indoor navigation in action
This presentation discusses IBM research activities and technology visions not necessarily complete products. There is no commitment or obligation on the part of IBM to develop or release components of the presentation in future IBM products
Accessible Location Services
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Accessible Location Services
Navigating a workplace campus can be a challenge for everyone
Accessible Location Services attempts to improve the workplace navigation experience for all by providing personalized answers to the following questions:
• Where am I?
• How do I get where I want to go based on my capabilities?
• Where are you?
• Help me!
Mobile Way Finding for All
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Anywhere access creates situational challenges for everyone
Outside light Ambient noise Single hand
Eyes busy Aging eyes Public places
Bumpy road
Why Mobile is Different?
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Successful workplace navigation needs to know about you
• Tailor the user interface
• Find points of interest and accommodations specific to your needs
• Provide routes based on your abilities
• Favorites points of interests and routes
• Enable others to be prepared if you need assistance
You - Personalization
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Defines what the requirements are and why
Doors and Doorways
Controls and Operable Parts
Protruding Objects
Accessible Routes between Stories
Accessible Routes
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Defines data schemas which enables location-based
information services and applications:
• Mainstream/Para transit
• Municipal Infrastructure & point of interest Information
• Points of Interest on route to and from the workplace
• Hotels & Lodgings
• Restaurants
• Disability Services Organizations or Centers
• Health Care Services
Accessible Transportation
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Outdoor and indoor navigation – what are the challenges?
Mobile devices can navigate outdoors using GPS
How can we navigate indoors successfully where GPS is not available?
By leveraging several land-marking techniques:
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth/Low-Powered
• NFC
• Image recognition
The Physical Environments
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Incorporating the “now” into navigation from social media
Can we harvest the large amounts of disjoint data and put it in the context of where you are and what you are trying to do?
• Obstacles
• Alerts
• Crowds
• Emergencies
Live Data
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Introduce another layer of complexity
• Event overlay design introduces dynamic locations
• Cause situational impairments (many people, noise)
• Time is relevant because of event schedules
• Transient data but may be useful for future events
• Social media is relevant
Events
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• Tailor-able for any campus
• Locates relevant points of interest
• Provides real-time indoor directions (audible, visually)
• Creates routes based on your capabilities
• Wi-Fi Land-marking is used to determine your location
A mobile workplace campus guide
What is Access My Campus?
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Workplace Campus Events City Transportation
What is the architecture enabling the app?
Location Accessibility
Data
Accessible
Route Definitions
Accessible Transportation
Points of Interest
Landmark Data
Social Analytics External Data
You
Crowd-Sourced
GPS, NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. for Land marking
Mobile App • Data Collection • Workplace
navigation • Where am I? • Where are
you? • Help me!
Data Management
Alternate Formats
Official Public Private
Accessible Location Services
POI’s
Architecture
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• Use the Access My Campus app to create a
series of points of interest.
• The app uses Wi-Fi signals to landmark each
location.
• Points of interest data is stored on a server
and can be classified as Official, Public, Private
The Location Mapping Workflow
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This application can aid visually impaired
people by audibly indicating:
• The direction they are heading
• The point of interest that they occupy
Indoor Navigation In Action
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What Eddie had to say
“As long as I've been here, I didn't know that there was a room down there called "Barton Springs" room.
I didn't know that that was where the "Long Horn" room was …
Having something like that that can take me there … then that
would be a great thing”
Eddie Interview