Americans with Disabilities Act - Compliance Assessment Toolkit on Smartphone

Author

Tanviruzzaman, Mohammad ; Rizia, Rizwana ; Ahamed, S.I. ; Smith, Ross

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Stat., & Comput. Sci., Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 July 2012

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

451

Abstract

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and other accessibility standards specify the requirements for assessing the architectural barriers for the built environment. And, the ADA -- Compliance Assessment Toolkit (ADACAT)provides simple pass-fail assessments of those requirements. Measurement Kit is the principal component of the ADACAT, which consists of various measuring instruments like, measuring tape, sound-level meter, light-level meter, magic slope block, etc. In this essay, we show that most of the instruments in the Measurement Kit can be effectively implemented as a software application on a smartphone equipped with sensors like, accelerometer, gyroscope, and microphone. Detailed algorithms have been presented and the experimental results show that an iPhone or iPod Touch 4:0 application can serve as measuring tape, sound-level meter, as well as slope meter, making the ADACAT both cheaper and more portable.

Keywords

accelerometers; gyroscopes; handicapped aids; law; sensors; smart phones; Americans with Disabilities Act - compliance assessment toolkit; accelerometer; architectural barrier assessment; gyroscope; iPhone application; iPod Touch 4:0 application; light-level meter; magic slope block; measurement kit; measuring instrument; measuring tape; microphone; pass-fail assessment; sensor; slope meter; smartphone; software application; sound-level meter; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Accuracy; Calibration; Frequency measurement; Kalman filters; Length measurement; a-weighting; allan variance; americans with disabilities act; dead reckoning; distance; inertial navigation; kalman filter; measurement; slope; smartphone; sould-level;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2012 IEEE 36th Annual

Conference_Location

Izmir

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1990-4

Electronic_ISBN

0730-3157

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2012.65

Filename

6340195