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Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Navigation Infrastructure

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ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3134827

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Indoor navigation systems, especially for people with visual impairments, often require intensive data collection and instrumentation to install and maintain over time. The most accurate navigation systems require experts to install many Bluetooth beacons or similar technologies throughout the environment. After hardware installation, data samples must be collected to construct a signal model of the environment to be navigated. The demands of this intense upfront workload and ongoing updates pose barriers for widespread adoption of navigation systems. This document describes LuzDeploy, a system to break these installation and maintenance workflows into small, simple tasks that be completed by volunteers with little to no training. A Facebook Messenger bot coordinates the overall deployment by assigning volunteers to beacon placement, data collection, or quality assurance tasks that take only a few minutes to complete. These tasks may be batched to do more or less work, depending on the amount of time the volunteer is able to contribute. LuzDeploy allows building owners and managers to distribute the difficult task of installation and maintenance. By making these workloads easier for non-experts, LuzDeploy aims to increase adoption of indoor navigation systems and make unfamiliar spaces more accessible to people who wish to navigate independently.

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Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Navigation Infrastructure
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility technologies
2. Social and professional topics
  1. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2017

450 pages

ISBN:9781450349260

DOI:10.1145/3132525

General Chair:
Amy Hurst
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
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Leah Findlater
University of Washington, USA
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research, USA

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