Welcome 👋 to the workshop website for "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI", which will be held virtually via Zoom in October as part of the ASSETS'24 conference.
Our goal is to bring together leading experts in human mobility, urban design, disability, and accessible computing to discuss pressing urban access challenges across the world and emerging role of AI in the design of equitable and accessible cities, transportation systems, and interactive tools for mapping and navigation. We invite contributions from practitioners, transit officials, disability advocates, and researchers.
See our Call for Participation below. Have a question? Please email us at urbanaccess2024@cs.uw.edu.
-Your UrbanAccess'24 organizers
PS: Check out the proceedings from our UrbanAccess'22 workshop here!
How will AI transform urban infrastructure for people with disabilities—from public transportation and sidewalks to the design and use of buildings, housing, parks, and transit stations? What new mobility tools and techniques will AI enable from autonomous vehicles and micro-mobility solutions to personalized routing and accessible interactive maps? How can AI be used to effectively and ethically solve urban accessibility problems and improve the quality of life for all? How can and should people with disabilities be involved with decisions about how AI is used in cities? In this workshop, we examine the emerging role of AI in the design of equitable and accessible cities, transportation systems, and interactive tools for mapping and navigation.
We invite short papers (broadly construed), including experience reports, position papers, vision pieces, demonstrations, pictorials, or research summaries up to approximately 2,000 words on this topic (approximately 3 pages of formatted, two-column output). See example topic areas below. For the word count, you can exclude figures, tables, captions, and the reference list. As we aim for a broad representation of viewpoints, disciplines, and work practices, please choose a format that you feel best conveys your work (e.g., single column, double column, ACM template).
Submitted artifacts should not be anonymized and, in addition to their primary content, should include a bio of each author and rationale for attending the workshop. PDF submissions should be accessible following the ASSETS'24 Accessibility Guidelines. Artifacts will be reviewed and selected by the co-organizers to balance topics, geographies, and communities of focus. Accepted authors will be required to register and virtually attend the workshop via Zoom on a date in Oct.
Our overarching goals are to identify open challenges in Urban AI + disability, share current work across disciplines, and spur new collaborations in Urban AI + disability. As a secondary goal, we aim to synthesize and publish our discussions together in a jointly authored report perhaps to the SIGACCESS Newsletter or beyond.
Please join us. We welcome your contributions! Email questions to: urbanaccess2024@cs.uw.edu
PS: Please see the diverse set of papers from our UrbanAccess2022 workshop!
You could also build on ideas from the diverse set of papers presented at our UrbanAccess2022 workshop!
To submit, the lead author should create an account on Microsoft CMT. Then, you can create a new submission here. On that page, click the "Create new submission" link.
The submission page will ask for the title, abstract, authors, and then a field for you to upload the PDF (one per submission). When adding an author, it will first ask for their email address—if the author is not found in the CMT system, you just need to manually add their name and affiliation (no need to ask them to create a CMT account).
You must register to attend UrbanAccess 2024. You can register here. But please read the following first.
Our workshop is part of the ASSETS'24 conference. You do not have to register for the full conference to attend the workshop. The registration prices are set by ASSETS'24 organizers and include accessibility services and staffing support.
ASSETS is an ACM conference. ACM stands for the the Association for Computing Machinery and is the largest scientific and educational computing society in the world. If you are not yet an ACM member, but publish at ACM venues, it often makes financial sense to become one. See ACM’s membership options.
| ACM/SIG Member | Non-member | Student | Student Non-member | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $55 | $65 | $40 | $55 |
