O uso de tecnologia mobile como ferramenta auxiliar em ações de acessibilidade espacial em ambiente de ensino universitário

Abstract

Based on the concept of spatial accessibility and its component elements of communication, spatial orientation, movement and use, this research aims to develop a mobile application prototype able to associate geolocation technology to read QR Code, in order to become an auxiliary tool in the accessibility shares with his theoretical framework based on research on Mobile Technology, universal accessibility and prototyping, to facilitate accessibility of a university setting. The method used included evaluation and record environmental conditions and accessibility on campus UFJF, which allowed the updating of existing maps and a pre-marking of the points referred to geolocation and recommendation of possible routes for walkers, applying QR Code for purposes addressing, and use of pictograms, meant for easy viewing and interpretation of information. This research aims to contribute through the results of surveys and analyzes, with the implementation of an accessibility program for the Campus UFJF, providing to its users, whether they are people with or without disabilities or reduced mobility: foreigners, visitors or native, equal conditions for guidance in the built environment and to locate buildings, accesses, urban equipment and the best routes to arrive at your destination. We developed a prototype called Alfa that allowed to analyze the importance of the use of information technology for space access and compare the current ways of addressing on a college campus with the possibilities glimpsed with the technological advent, so it is believed that the objectives of this dissertation were achieved, leaving the Beta prototype development proposal for the results to be glimpsed in its fullness.