Public Relations & Advertising
Presenter(s): Jaxon Skidmore, Ricky Vila, Jeremy Anderson
Advisor(s): Dr. LouAnne Boyd
Our beautiful campus at Chapman has a lot to offer, but unfortunately many are unaware of its accessible features. Our goal with Chap Maps is to shine light on Chapman’s wide range of accessible tools for people with disabilities to help aid navigation through campus. This includes specific bathrooms, stairs, elevators, ramps, automatic doors, etc. We originally kept our focus small, specifically on people with wheelchairs that needed help navigating, but we widened our perspectives and realized an interactive map with other helpful things such as gender-neutral bathrooms and crosswalks can kill two birds with one stone. After doing some research, many people have thought of using technology to help people with disabilities, and their recommended processes of testing. We have already started our testing with paper prototyping and asking users to test out our prototypes gathering feedback. There are multiple other tasks needed to be completed before we can fully engage in executing this application, but we have made the right steps and made an end goal for ourselves along with a reach goal. For our end goal, we want to be able to map every elevator, ramp, automatic door, etc in an app with an interactive map and have our app execute multimodality and other key aspects we have learned this semester. We thought that was a very reachable end goal for us, and for a reach goal being able to help aid people with disabilities by giving them the best evacuation plan based on their location and needs in case of an emergency such as a fire.