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Collaborative personalized multi-criteria wayfinding for wheelchair users in outdoors

Hashemi, M and Karimi, HA (2017) Collaborative personalized multi-criteria wayfinding for wheelchair users in outdoors. Transactions in GIS, 21 (4). 782 - 795. ISSN 1361-1682

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Abstract

While finding the optimal route for users with physical disabilities and personalizing routes for each user, on the one hand, and collaborative wayfinding, on the other hand, have been addressed in the pedestrian navigation systems literature, there has not been much research on combining the two activities. The problem associated with wayfinding approaches solely based on information about network segments and personal preferences is that the information about segments in the database may not, correctly and/or adequately address user preferences. The problem associated with wayfinding approaches solely based on the ratings given to routes by wheelchair users is the lack of rates (or scores) for all possible routes between all possible origin-destination pairs in the network. This article discusses an approach to combine these two approaches for wayfinding to augment each other's shortcomings. To evaluate the personalized wayfinding approach, we utilize a route index, called a comparison index. The results show that with a P-value of 9%, the routes obtained from our approach are more accessible than the routes obtained from another approach developed in another study. To evaluate the collaborative wayfinding approach, a Monte Carlo simulation was conducted which reflects the updates in routes as users' feedbacks become available.


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Hashemi, M
Karimi, HAhkarimi@pitt.eduHKARIMI0000-0001-5331-5004
Date: 1 August 2017
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: Transactions in GIS
Volume: 21
Number: 4
Page Range: 782 - 795
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1111/tgis.12230
Schools and Programs: School of Information Sciences > Information Science
Refereed: Yes
ISSN: 1361-1682
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2017 14:58
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2021 10:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/32591

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