Tactile Maps - Safety and Usability

: Ojala S, Lahtinen R, Hirn H

: International Conference on Well-Being-in-the-Information-Society (WIS) - Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems

Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK, MS INGRID CUNNINGHAM, 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10010 USA

: Tampere

: 2016

: Communications in Computer and Information Science

: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH ECOSYSTEMS

: COMM COM INF SC

: 6

: 636

: 15

: 22

: 8

: 978-3-319-44671-4

: 1865-0929

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_2

Maps are regularly used in planning a trip or a route, e.g. when going on a holiday abroad or driving to a meeting in a place one has not visited before. Sighted people can get hold to a map quite easily as they are available both in paper copies and furthermore virtual maps are more and more widely available too.When one is visiting a city abroad one uses maybe more than one map at a time - city map as well as a route map of the public transport. These can be carried quite easily, as well as referred to on a regular basis. There are also maps of bigger venues like seating plans of auditoriums or concert venues. For the visually impaired tactile maps are also a safety issue [ 1].