The Adige River map in 1:20,736 scale by Leopoldo de Claricini-Dornpacher (1847)

In the 50th year anniversary of the November 1966 Adige river flood, which hit at the same time Florence and Venice 14 map sheets of the Adige river valley between Meran and Borghetto, in northern Italy, were scanned in high-quality and printed for the public ac-cess and use. The lithograph was printed in 1847 in a 1:20.736 scale (1”:288° i.e. 1 Zoll=288 Klafter) in Innsbruck by Leopoldo de Claricini-Dornpacher (1812-1888) and depicts the river and its valley as it was in almost natural conditions when the river training works just started in the intermediate reach. A georeferencing of one sample sheet shows that a RMSE between 10 and 15 meters can be reached. A comparison with the actual geomorphology of the river especially in its southern reach is possible thanks to the map. One of the objectives of this study is, also, to make a beautiful map accessible to a wide public, to let people enjoying the river landscape as it was and will never return, until the next glacial era. Introductio

A Universal Design Approach to Wayfinding and Navigation in an Urban University Campus

This paper investigates the problem of urban accessibility and proposes a system for the generation of accessible paths in an urban university campus. Universal Design has been adopted to explore the different perspectives of the involved stakeholders; an interdisciplinary team has iteractively developed a web application targeted at public administrators and two versions of a mobile app (one for Android and one for iOS) to be used by citizens. The mobile app is able to propose and guide users on paths that best fit their characteristics and preferences; for example, if a user declares some motor and/or visual impairement, the app proposes paths that avoid the architectural barriers related to such impairments. Not only pedestrian paths are considered in the system, but also routes for private cars or public transportation, and thus information about reserved parking lots and limited traffic zones are also managed. The app has been currently tailored to the campus of the University of Brescia, which is distributed in different districts of Brescia, a town in northern Italy; however, it can be easily scaled to other organizations or whole towns, since Google Maps and its APIs have been used as mapping service. Twenty five participants, including blind people and persons with motor disabilities, have been involved in the evaluation of the usability and accessibility of the two versions of the mobile app

The Adige River map in 1:20,736 scale of Leopoldo de Claricini-Dornpacher (1847)

In the 50th year anniversary of the November 1966 Adige river flood, which hit at the same time Florence and Venice 14 map sheets of the Adige river valley between Meran and Borghetto, in northern Italy, were scanned in high-quality and printed for the public ac-cess and use. The lithograph was printed in 1847 in a 1:20.736 scale (1”:288° i.e. 1 Zoll=288 Klafter) in Innsbruck by Leopoldo de Claricini-Dornpacher (1812- 1888) and depicts the river and its valley as it was in almost natural conditions when the river training works just started in the intermediate reach. A georeferencing of one sample sheet shows that a RMSE between 10 and 15 meters can be reached. A comparison with the actual geomorphology of the river especially in its southern reach is possible thanks to the map. One of the objectives of this study is, also, to make a beautiful map accessible to a wide public, to let people enjoying the river landscape as it was and will never return, until the next glacial era

UniBS4All: A Mobile Application for Accessible Wayfinding and Navigation in an Urban University Campus

This paper presents the UniBS4All project, aimed at developing systems and practices for the creation of an accessible urban university campus. UniBS4All is also the name of a mobile application able to suggest personalized navigation paths towards and among the buildings of the University of Brescia. In particular, on the basis of the disabilities of the user (motor disability and/or visual impairment) and on the chosen path type (pedestrian, driving or with public transportation), the app proposes an accessible path, that is, a path able to avoid architectural barriers. The app is based on Google Maps API and exploits Google Directions API to compute the paths tailored to the users' characteristics and preferences