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GENEVE*accessible: Using GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones To Enable The Disabled

by Justin

GPS isn’t just for automotive navigation, geocaching, and navigating yourself around unknown big cities.Â A project being run in Geneva, Switzerland, launched by the city in partnership with the Handicap Architecture Urbanisme (HAU) association is actually using GPS-enable mobile phones to make the city easier to navigate for the disabled.Â Called GENEVE*accessible, the premise of the project is as follows: hand out GPS-enabled mobile phones to the disabled, which they can then use to take pictures of obstacles around Geneva, ultimately creating a map on the internet.Â The map will point out all the tough spots for the wheelchair-bound, blind, etc.Â Kind of a practical multimedia art project, GENEVE*accessible will be presented at the Centre dâ€™Art Contemporain GenÃ¨ve May 27-June 1.