Mobile-S (Mobile-S) 01.11.2024 – 31.10.2026

The aim of the project is to investigate good conditions for the spatial movement of older people with impaired mobility and possibly impaired hearing and vision and to derive open space designs and routes that support the accessibility of everyday / leisure facilities. A web-based navigation aid will be used to suggest alternative routes that suggest barriers and disruptive factors, but also needs such as sanitary facilities, benches for resting, etc., individually depending on the mobility aids used.

Utilisation: The project will develop a low-threshold navigation aid for age-appropriate routing and orientation in urban areas. For this purpose, the geo-referenced position and the route quality and situation will be determined for test situations using sensors and image analysis methods, and the user situation (stress level) will be determined using additional sensors and iteratively integrated into a software solution for mobile devices in the sense of a learning process (artificial intelligence). As a supplementary database, information bases from the neighbourhood management, the city and a representative housing cooperative are combined with spatial information on everyday and leisure destinations and geodata from local and remote sensing as well as freely available information (e.g. OpenStreetMap). Using the example of WK6 in Halle-Neustadt, the project will record and categorise the route situation, document the transitions between route categories and record the accessibility of areas of need as well as attractive green / adventure and service areas. In addition, the physically and mentally relevant barriers (e.g. background noise, lighting regime) are assessed. Mobility profiles are derived for different mobility restrictions (use of walking aids, rollator, wheelchair). This is made available in “traffic light maps” (software solution for mobile devices) for the above-mentioned user groups and for urban and neighbourhood development. For the latter, information on open space design is developed, e.g. on the effect of different visual axes, planting and background noise as well as on path designs for increased attractiveness and accessibility of open spaces with different mobility barriers.

Participants:

• Department of Sustainable Landscape Development, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Coordinator)
• Institute for Health and Nursing Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Centre for Social Research Halle e.V.
• Institute for Graphic Data Processing, Fraunhofer
• PiSolution GmbH
• HaNeuer Housing Co-operative e.G.
• City of Halle
• Neighbourhood management Halle-Neustadt
• Seniors’ Council of the City of Halle