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Welcome to our first event of term!
This presentation focuses on evaluating the use of big data to enhance disabled accessibility measures in smart cities. While assistive technologies based on data-driven analyses have proliferated, researchers and developers have yet to develop sufficient standards for assessing these technologies and their socio-urban implications. The presentation reviews uni-disciplinary attempts made thus far and provides four interdisciplinary principles for moving forward. The principles are:
(1) The Principle of Disabled-Centred Technological Development
(2) The Principle of Disabled Diversity
(3) The Principle of Expanding Disabled Independence and
(4) The Principle of Mixed-methods Discourse.
In relation to these principles, various challenges and opportunities related to data-driven disabled accessibility measures will be explored. I will present necessary areas of improvements that require socio-ethical and practical urban considerations.
Sharon Chang:
Sharon Chang is an MSc student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Her research interests include the development of smart cities, the Internet of Things (IoT), and ideas for improving disabled accessibility through data-driven, human-centred approaches. Before joining the OII, she studied at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
Directions:
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