Mapping and location aware resources

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good morning,

The following information was provided by Greg Fields, Accessibility  
Manager at RIM.

1. Georgia... location aware devices

There are 2 related projects:

A) Georgia tech - The contact there is Leanne West, and they are using  
mobiles to improve awareness of location in building (museum, airport,  
etc) for assisted wayfinding for persons with disabilities. I don't  
know how public their research is, but I can provide an intro email  
for you to Leanne. She and her team are great!

B) ASK-IT - a euro funded research project geared to wheelchair  
accessible mapping and wayfinding -http://www.ask-it.org/

2. Accessible mapping

There are 2 projects here:

A) ASK-IT again - http://www.ask-it.org/

B) Czech technical University in Prague is looking at a text-based  
mapping app as a side project of AEGIS, design for blind users. They  
are putting their paper together on this and just prototyping now. I  
can point you to more very soon.

HTH,
Everett

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