Research on the advancement of a digital welfare map

- The regional experiment for event information functions -

Abstract

The digital welfare map is performed as practical activity in Atsugi IT consortium. The digital welfare map can provide welfare information such as the obstacle and life information on the Internet, by which the senior citizen and physically handicapped persons can go out safe. The actual proof experiment using the model system was conducted, and the validity and convenience were checked in February, 2003. This report shows the outline and its research organization of a model system of a digital welfare map first. Next, the event information functions and its technical examination result of a digital welfare map are shown. And the experiments of these functions were conducted at the time of the regional festival in August, 2003. Validity is checked from evaluation of a participant and a user and the future subject of a digital welfare map is considered.