Crowds Helping Make City Sidewalks More Accessible
From: Follow the Crowd - 04/03/2013

Poorly maintained sidewalks pose considerable accessibility challenges for
people with mobility impairments; however there are currently few mechanisms
to determine accessible areas of a city a priori (e.g., before a person
leaves their home). This is a significant problem: according to the most
recent US Census data, 30.6 million individuals have physical disabilities
that affect their ambulatory activities. In our recent work, we investigated
whether crowd workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk (turkers) could accurately
find, label, and assess the physical accessibility of sidewalks from Google
Street View (GSV) imagery.

Read the entire article and view videos (0:34, 3:04)) at:
http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=5583

Paper:
Combining Crowdsourcing and Google Street View to Identify Street-level
  Accessibility Problems
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/publications/Hara_CombiningCrowdsourcingAndGoogleStreetViewToIdentifyStreet-levelAccessibilityProblems_CHI2013.pdf

Submitted by William Tucker