Lazarillo GPS

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1 Descripción del projecto / Description of the project
2 Preguntas:
3 Datos / Data
4 Tecnologías / Technologies
5 Seguimiento / Current status and next steps
6 Autor/es del projecto / Author(s) of the project
7 Colaboradores / Collaborators
8 Links

Descripción del projecto / Description of the project

Este proyecto propone una forma de mapeo de las zonas de interés cultural de Madrid adaptado a personas con discapacidad. Se trabajará con personas discapacitadas que realizarán rutas turísticas con receptores gps e informarán de las zonas que están preparadas para su acceso y las que están interrumpidas arquitectónicamente.

Preguntas:

-describe the goal of the project in 3 sentences (which message do you want to carry? to whom?)

The project will develop a web site to visualize touristic tours done by weelchair users around Madrid. The visualization will show the track on a map and also how users "reviewed" specific things they found on their way, either good (e.g. places or bars they liked) or bad (locomotion problems they found). The idea is that this site will promote a tourism approach for weelchair users that goes beyond what they currently are offered by tourism offices (one-two predefined tours) and, by combining the experience of many users, will provide useful information.

-what are the inspiring projects and theories; background, context, references

Barzelona Accessible: http://www.zexe.net/BARCELONA/barcelona.php?can_actual=74&qt=7.5
Accessible Madrid: http://www.esmadrid.com/en/portal.do?IDM=955&NM=3
EveryTrail: http://www.everytrail.com/
Fabien Girardin: sentient cities

-what is the short-term objective (what do you expect to finish in 2 weeks)?

to collect data from a few weelchair users. The idea is to find weelchair people at the tourist office, ask them

to do a tour with us and collect the data (see below)

interview a few weelchair users and get feedback about the project
design and develop a web site where data will be visualized (see below)

-what is the long term objective (what posterior development do you think of)?

Creating a community-oriented platform where weelchair users have the ability to independently provide data about their tours to the system and share them with the others. A possibility would be to connect to existing platforms that enable people to share information about tours (GPS tracks, pictures, comments) - see e.g. www.everytrail.com - and ask them to provide sections for weelchair users. Another possibility would be to write a mobile phone application (along the lines of those provided by everytrail) dedicated to collect all data directly from the user and then upload them to the web site.

-what are the data (status, where do they come from)

Data collected are:

* GPS track logs of weelchair users following touristic tracks in Madrid;
* geo-located pictures taken by weelchair users while following the route, together with free comments on good things they saw or that helped them, problems found, or other; plus, a vote (good or bad) to the place in the picture

Data will be collected at the end of this week and beginning of next week.

-how will you convert data into some perceptual experience - graphical algorithm (what is the information you want to get out of the data? how are the data and graphics related? what are the graphical decisions?)

The GPS tracks will be visualized together on the same google map with placeholders to access the geotagged pictures, comments and ratings. The placeholders will use color-coding to show the rating (e.g. red = bad, green = good). Each track segment between two pictures will be colored according to the changes in elevation (as logged by the GPS) to show if a track segment was plain (that means easy for weelchair users) of not (e.g. it is steep).

The user will also have the opportunity to visualize specific tracks in a separate map and download gps tracks made by other users if they want to repeat a certain tour.

Datos / Data

Tecnologías / Technologies

-Herramientas / Tools

-Código / Code

Seguimiento / Current status and next steps

Autor/es del projecto / Author(s) of the project

Carolina Paola Caluori Funes

Colaboradores / Collaborators

Laura Boffi, Marie Polakova, Roberto Ranon, Branislava Kovacevic, Sandra Fernández, Nicholas Wright, Susanna Tesconi Angel Polo , Amanda y Carlos de la asociación Debajo del Sombrero