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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Unlocking Physical World Accessibility through ICT: A SWOT Analysis
Authors : Christophe Ponsard, Vincent Snoeck
Published in: Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Despite progress in awareness and increasing electronic availability of accessibility information, getting a clear picture of physical accessibility of an infrastructure or journey remains an uncertain task. Over the past few years, a number of emerging technologies have gained maturity and adoption. Some examples are smartphones, open data, social networks, and routing engines. They are also triggering societal shifts about the way people interact together through technology. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how these technologies can positively or negatively impact the evolution of physical accessibility by using a SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) approach.