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AData-DrivenTool toPromoteTourism
forPeoplewithDisabilities inaSmart
CityEnvironment
MarcoGOMESa,b andPauloNOVAISa
aAlgoritmiCentre,UniversityofMinho,Braga,Portugal
bCIICESI,ESTG,Polytechnic InstituteofPorto,Portugal
Abstract.Disability itself isdeeplyassociatedwithmobilityconditioningand iso-
lation. The combination of the two conditions rises a chain reaction of exclusion
that affects a significant number ofwomen in a lot of European countries,with a
particular focusonelderlyanddisabledpeople.Therefore, inclusiveandaccessible
tourism need to be integrated into the future vision for tourism, especially in the
contextofSmartCities.Tothisend, in thisshortpaper,wereportourongoingwork
for enabling decisionmaking for accessible and inclusive tourism by using open
dataand relevant informationasawayof improvingsocial and leisureexperiences
forpeoplewithdisabilities.
Keywords.SmartCity,Analytics,Peoplewithdisabilities,Knowledgegraphs
1. Introduction
Peoplewith lowincome, living insmall and isolated (evendeveloped) regionsmayhave
few opportunities to go, to travel and meet other cultures, other people. Traditionally
womenareamong thosemoreaffectedby this lackofopportunities.This reality is even
more significant for peoplewith disabilities. Disability itself is deeply associatedwith
mobilityconditioningand isolation.Thecombinationof the twoconditions risesachain
reaction of exclusion that affects a significant number of women in a lot of European
countries,withaparticular focusonelderlyanddisabledpeople. In that sense,a remark-
able topic here is that one of inclusive and accessible tourism, with aspects related to
leisure activities, particularly around traveling, that need tobe integrated into the future
vision for tourism, especially in the context of Smart Cities, environments fully bene-
fiting from the recent technological advances. Smart cities rely onvarious types of data
collection fromcitizens and electronic devices to supply information that city planners,
techcompaniesandotherstakeholdersusetomanagecityresourcesmoreefficiently.De-
spite the position that smart cities are in to providebetter infrastructure and technology
for peoplewith disabilities,most smart cities donot seem tobe accommodatingpeople
withdisabilitiesmuchbetter thancurrent cities 1.
1https://mobilitymgmt.com/articles/2019/03/01/accessibility.aspx Intelligent Environments 2019
A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.)
© 2019 The authors and IOS Press.
This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
doi:10.3233/AISE190021
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Title
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Subtitle
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Authors
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-Cía
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 416
- Category
- Tagungsbände