Paper Info
Title
Accessible Tourism for the Deaf via Mobile Apps.
Abstract
Accessible tourism seeks to integrate people with impaired abilities --e.g. mobility, vision, hearing-- in travel and leisure activities. The attention to this field has been growing in the past decade, thanks also to technological advancements in smart devices. This paper illustrates the enterprise of accessible tourism applications for smartphones and tablets, tailored for a Deaf Community audience. Specifically, we designed, developed and tested two apps for visiting indoor/outdoor archaeological sites. The apps were implemented for the National Roman Museum Palazzo Massimo, and the open-air archaeological excavation site of Ostia Antica, both in Rome, Italy. The apps are available for free download/use, and have been awarded the European Excellence Award for Accessible Tourism in Brussels, Belgium (2014).
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2910674.2910694
PETRA
Field
DocType
Citations 
Excavation,Computer science,Simulation,Deaf community,Download,Human–computer interaction,Accessible tourism,Mobile apps,Excellence
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franco Milicchio1276.61
Mattia C. F. Prosperi29922.97