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Accessibility data/information is necessary to support the everyday mobility of people with special needs. As a means to accommodate mobility of students with special needs, universities and colleges provide maps with accessibility data/information for their campus, where some are static and others are interactive. In this paper, we describe the concept of Personalized Accessibility Maps (PAMs) and discuss the development of a PAM for the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus as a representative PAM. As a result of this development, there is a better understanding of the technologies and techniques needed for PAMs along with challenges and future research directions.
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Karimi, H.A., Zhang, L., Benner, J.G. (2013). Personalized Accessibility Maps (PAMs) for Communities with Special Needs. In: Liang, S.H.L., Wang, X., Claramunt, C. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7820. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37087-8_15
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