期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)
印刷版ISSN：0975-4660
电子版ISSN：0975-3826
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：23
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Aging society has been becoming a global problem not only in advanced countries. Under suchcircumstances, it is said that participation of elderly people in social activities is highly desirable fromvarious perspectives including decrease of social welfare costs. Thus, we propose a mobile service thatnotifies barrier information nearby users outside to lowers the anxiety of elderly people and promote theirsocial activities. There are barrier free maps in some areas, but those are static and updated annually atthe earliest. However, there exist temporary barriers like road repairing and parked bicycles, and alsoevery barrier is not for every elder person. That is, the elder people are under several conditions and willsto go out, so that a barrier for an elder person is not necessarily the one for the other. Therefore, we firstcollect the barrier information in the user participatory manner and select the ones the user need to know,then timely provide them via a mobile phone equipped with GPS. This paper shows the public experimentthat we conducted in Tokyo, and confirms the usability and the accuracy of the information filtering.
