102. Remaking the Physical Disability Inclusion Score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Score (VIIS) to Assess the Disability Inclusiveness of Commercial Facilities: A Pilot Study

In response to the calls for more researches in disability inclusive facilities, two tools namely the Physical Disability Inclusion Score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Score (VIIS), which are simple, quantitative and more objective tools for assessing the disability inclusiveness of higher education buildings, were previously developed. Here the remaking of the tools to PDIS (Commercial) and VIIS (Commercial) for assessing respectively the physical disability and the visual impairment inclusiveness of commercial facilities are presented together with the pilot results. The Non-structural Fuzzy Decision Support System (NSFDSS), which is similar to the popular multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), is used to analyse the weighting of different assessment attributes in PDIS (Commercial) and VIIS (Commercial). In this pilot study, 6 respondents who are physically or visually impaired were invited to weight the attributes. On-site assessment of 6 commercial facilities in Hong Kong using PDIS (Commercial) and VIIS (Commercial) was also conducted to look for disability inclusive (and excluding) areas in shopping malls. At last, the research agenda on this theme including the use of information and communications technology (ICT) tools to assess building disability inclusiveness will be presented.