Path 2.0: A participatory system for the generation of accessible routes

From the advent of the digital era, new powerful technologies have shown, on one hand, important progresses towards the mankind necessity and, on the other hand, a progressive isolation of individuals. In this work, we present a social application we have developed to support people with disabilities. Our application leverages on the popularity of smart phones and on the Web 2.0 paradigm to pervasively and invisibly collect information about the accessibility of city roads. This information is then used to provide a Google Maps-like service to determine an accessible path between any two locations for users with a certain disability.