New $2m Project Sidewalk NSF Grant
I'm excited to announce a $2m grant from the NSF to take Project Sidewalk to the next level. Our grant, entitled Crowd+AI Tools to Map, Analyze, and Visualize Sidewalk Accessibility for Inclusive Cities (NSF #2125087), aims to (1) advance understanding of stakeholder needs and opportunities for socio-technical tools to assess and plan for accessible sidewalks; (2) develop and evaluate crowd+AI sidewalk data collection and assessment techniques to improve scalability, reliability, and better support diverse stakeholder needs; and (3) develop and evaluate a suite of open-source urban accessibility analysis and visualization tools.
The cross-disciplinary grant is in collaboration with Professors Yochai Eisenberg, Joy Hammel, and Delphine Labbé at the University of Illinois Chicago and Judy Shanley from Easterseals.
