Title :
Town map system for sharing accessibility information using card data structure
Author :
Hattori, Akira ; Yasuda, Takami ; Yokoi, Shigeki
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Human Informatics, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes a town map system for sharing accessibility information. Our system´s unique contribution is handling all information as card data and associating those cards with a map. Using this system, users can share information in a map-based unified way. Our system not only stores information from users, but also organizes it. Users can therefore easily make their own plan for going out by relating more than two stored cards. They can also efficiently search for necessary information. Furthermore, in order to provide reliable information, we incorporated a function in which users can give a card positive or negative comments. If a card is given a negative comment, our system might make it invisible. Through evaluation of the prototype system, it was proved that our proposed system was effective in shaping accessibility information.
Keywords :
data structures; geographic information systems; handicapped aids; visual databases; accessibility information sharing; card data structure; information storage; negative comments; positive comments; town map system; Cities and towns; Conferences; Data structures; Databases; Humans; Informatics; Information management; Prototypes; Switches; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Media Networking, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1778-1
DOI :
10.1109/KMN.2002.1115174