Publications
Fact Sheets:
- Universal Design & Accessible Transit Systems: Facts to Consider When Updating or Expanding Your Transit System: A fact sheet provides useful information on accessibility and the benefits of universal design. Jointly developed with Easter Seals Project ACTION.
Research Publications:
2018
- Steinfeld, A., Maisel, J.L., and Steinfeld, E. (eds). (forthcoming). Accessible Public Transportation: Designing Service for Riders with Disabilities. New York: Routledge.
2017
- Ranahan, M., Maisel, J., and Lenker, J. (approved). How transit agencies implement best practice strategies in complementary ADA paratransit eligibility. Journal of Public Transportation, 20(3).
- D'Souza, C., Paquet, V., Lenker, J. & Steinfeld, E. (2017). Effects of Transit Bus Interior Configuration on Performance of Wheeled Mobility Users during Simulated Boarding and Disembarking. Applied Ergonomics, 62, 94-106.
- Huang, Y., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., Steinfeld, A. (2016). Combining contribution interactions to increase coverage in mobile participatory sensing systems. In ACM (Ed.), 18th Intl Con. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '16 (pp. 365-376). New York: ACM.
- Yang, Q., Zimmerman, J., Steinfeld, A., Tomasic, A. (2016). Planning Adaptive Mobile Experiences When Wireframing.In ACM (Ed.), 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16) (pp. 565-576). New York: ACM.
- Giampapa, J. A., Steinfeld, A. Teves, E., Dias, M. B., & Rubinstein, Z. (2017). Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): State of the Practice Scan, CMU-RI-TR-17-15. Pittsburgh, PA: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Giampapa, J. A., Steinfeld, A. Teves, E., Dias, M. B., & Rubinstein, Z. (2017). Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): Innovation Scan, CMU-RI-TR-17-16. Pittsburgh, PA: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Giampapa, J. A., Steinfeld, A. Teves, E., Dias, M. B., & Rubinstein, Z. (2017). Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): Assessment of Relevant Research, CMU-RI-TR-17-17. Pittsburgh, PA: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
2016
- Lenker, J, Damle, U, D’Souza, C., Paquet, V., Mashtare, T, and Steinfeld, E. (2016). Usability Evaluation of Access Ramps in Transit Buses: Preliminary Findings. Journal of Public Transportation, 19, 7.
- Yang, Q., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., & Steinfeld, A. (2016). Planning adaptive mobile experiences when wireframing. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 565-576). New York, NY: ACM.
2015
- D'Souza, C., Zhu, X., Steinfeld, E., Lenker, J. & Paquet, V. (2015). Human Factors Study of Accessible Buses Using Full Scale Simulations.In R. Mercario (Ed.), 14th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons, Part A (pp. 343 - 354). Lisbon, Portugal: TRANSED.
- Min, B.-C., Saxena, S., Steinfeld, A., & Dias, M. B. (2015). Incorporating information from trusted sources to enhance urban navigation for blind travelers. IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. Seattle, WA: IEEE.
- Dias, M. B., Steinfeld, A., & Dias, M. B. (2015). Future Directions in Indoor Navigation Technology for Blind Travelers. In H. Karimi (Ed.), Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation (pp. 203-226). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
- Tomasic, A., Zimmerman, J., Garrod, C., Huang, Y., Nip, T., & Steinfeld, A. (2015). The performance of a crowdsourced transportation information system. Transportation Research Board 2015 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board.
- Min, B.-C., Saxena, S., Steinfeld, A., & Dias, M. B. (2015). Incorporating information from trusted sources to enhance urban navigation for blind travelers. IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). New York, NY: IEEE.
- Saxena, S., Min, B-C., Dias, M. B., & Steinfeld, A. (2015). System and Architecture Design of NavPal Outdoor Navigation Aid for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. Robotics Institute Summer Scholars Working Papers Journal, Vol. 2 (pp. 68-76). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute.
- Dias, M B (2015). The NavPal Suite of Tools for Enhancing Indoor Navigation for Blind Travelers. In H. Karimi (Ed.), Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation (pp. 187-202). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
2014
- Bareria, P., Shin, G. (2014). Assisting wheelchair users on bus ramps: A potential cause of low back injury among bus drivers. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 21, 5.
- Jonnalagedda, A., Pei, L., Saxena, S., Wu, M., Min, B-C., Teves, E., Steinfeld, A., & Dias, M. B. (2014). Enhancing the Safety of Visually Impaired Travelers in and around Transit Stations (Tech Report CMU-RI-TR-14-28). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute.
- Hassan, A., Karimi, H., Dias, M. B., Pearlman, J., & Zimmerman, G. (2014). Wayfinding and Navigation for People with Disabilities Using Social Navigation Networks. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing, 1, 1-13.
- D'Souza, C. (2014). Modeling of Accessibility and User Performance for Inclusive Transit Bus Design. SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles, 7, 50-58.
- D'Souza, C. (2014). Modeling of Accessibility and User Performance for Inclusive Transit Bus Design. Proceedings of the 2014 SAE World Congress. Detroit, MI: SAE International.
- Tomasic, A., Steinfeld, A., Zimmerman, J., Huang, Y. (2014). The influence of quid-pro-quo on time-sensitive crowdsourcing. acm (pp. 979-988). Baltimore, Maryland, USA: ACM.
- D'Souza, C., and Zhu, Xinhui (2014). Ambulation Aid Use and User Performance for Transit Vehicle Interior Design.In HFES (Ed.), Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58th Meeting (pp. 510-514). Chicago, IL: HFES.
2013
- Steinfeld, A., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A. (2013). Bringing Customers Back into Transportation: Citizen Driven Transit Service Innovation via Social Computing. In S. Bregman, K. E. Watkins (Ed.), Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media (pp. ?). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
- Steinfeld, A., Steinfeld, E. (2013). State of the Science Report: The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation. Pittsburgh, PA: RERC-APT.
- Huang, Y., Tomasic, A., An, Y., Garrod, C., and Steinfeld, A. (2013). Energy Efficient and Accuracy Aware (E2A2) Location Services via Crowdsourcing. 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (pp. 436-443). Lyon, France: WiMob.
- Gardiner, S., Tomasic, A., Zimmerman, J. (2013). Mixer: Learning Relational Web Extraction Interactively from a Crowd, IMLW 2013.In IUI (Ed.), Proceedings of the Interactive Machine Learning Workshop at IUI 2013 (pp. 46-47). Santa Monica, CA: ACM.
- Steinfeld, A., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A. (2013). Bringing Customers Back into Transportation: Citizen Driven Transit Service Innovation via Social Computing. In S. Bregman, K. E. Watkins (Ed.), Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media (pp. ?). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
- Steinfeld, E., Paquet, V., Lenker, J., D'Souza, C., and Bareria, P. (2013). Universal design research on boarding and using buses.In S. Skavlid; H. P. Olsen (Ed.), Universaldesign as process (pp. ?). Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs.
- Yoo, D., Zimmerman, J., Hirsch, T. (2013). Probing bus stop for insights on transit co-design.In CHI (Ed.), Proceeding CHI '13 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 409-418). New York, NY: ACM.
2012
- Steinfeld, A., Rao, S. L., Tran, A., Zimmerman, J., & Tomasic, A. (2012). Co-producing value through public transit information services, International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering. (Co-Located with the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics)
- D’Souza, C., Paquet, V., Steinfeld, E. & Lenker, J. (2012). Performance of Walking Aid Users during Laboratory-Based Environmental Simulations of Boarding and Alighting Low-Floor Buses. Submitted to the Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2012, Recife, Brazil, February 2012.
- Paquet, V., Joseph, C. & D’Souza, C. (2012). Computer Re-sampling to Develop Representative User Populations when Applying Anthropometry in Design. Submitted to the Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2012, Recife, Brazil, February 2012.
- Bareria, P., D’Souza, C., Paquet, V., Lenker, J., and Steinfeld, E. (2012). Performance of visually impaired users during simulated boarding and alighting on low-floor buses. In HFES (Ed.), Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES) (pp. 656-660). Boston, MA: HFES.
2011
- Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., Garrod, C., Yoo, D., Hiruncharoenvate, C., Aziz, R., Thirunevgadam, N., Huang, Y. Steinfeld, A. (2011). Field trial of Tiramisu: Crowd-sourcing bus arrival times to spur co-design, Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
- Vázquez, M. & Steinfeld, A. (2011). Helping visually impaired users properly aim a camera, Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS).
- Vázquez, M. & Steinfeld, A. (2011). Facilitating photographic documentation of accessibility in street scenes, Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Works-in-Progress.
- GeoAccess Challenge Team (2011). Data-Enabled Travel: How Geo-Data Can Support Inclusive Transportation, Tourism, and Navigation through Communities, http://geoaccess.org/content/report-data-enabled-travel
- Steinfeld, A., Zimmerman, J., Tomasic, A., Yoo, A., & Aziz, R. (2011). Mobile transit rider information via universal design and crowdsourcing. Transportation Research Board 2011 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board.
- Vázquez, M., & Steinfeld, A. (2011). An assisted photography method for street scenes. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
2010
- Steinfeld, A. (2010). Ethics and policy implications for inclusive intelligent transportation systems. Second International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology.
- Steinfeld, A., Aziz, R., Von Dehsen, L., Park, S. Y., Maisel, J., & Steinfeld, E. (2010). The value and acceptance of citizen science to promote transit accessibility, Journal of Technology and Disability, 22(1-2), 73-81. IOS Press.
- D'Souza, C., Steinfeld, E., Paquet, V., & Feathers, D. (2010, In press). Space requirements for wheeled mobility devices in public transportation: An analysis of clear floor space requirements. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, In press.
- Ayoob, E., Andrianoff, T., Aziz, R. D., & Steinfeld, A. (2010). Interaction development for a public transit rider reporting system. Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference, Miami, FL, July 17-20, 2010.
- Steinfeld, E., D'Souza, C., & Maisel, J. (2010). Clear Floor Space For Contemporary Wheeled Mobility Users. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED 2010), Hong Kong, June 2-4, 2010.
- Steinfeld, E., Paquet, V., Lenker, J., D'Souza, C., & Maisel, J. (2010). Universal Design Research on Boarding and Using Buses. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED 2010), Hong Kong, June 2-4, 2010.
- Yoo, D., Zimmerman, J., Steinfeld, A., & Tomasic, A. (2010). Understanding the space for co-design in riders’ interactions with a transit service, Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, GA, April 10-15, 2010.
- D'Souza, C., Steinfeld, E., Paquet, V., & Feathers, D. (2010). Space requirements for wheeled mobility devices in public transportation: An analysis of clear floor space requirements. Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 2010.
- Maisel, J. L., Damle, U., & Lenker, J. (2010). Systematic Review of Research on Boarding and Disembarking. Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board.
- Steinfeld, A., Aziz, R., Von Dehsen, L., Park, S. Y., Maisel, J., & Steinfeld, E. (2010). Modality preference for rider reports on transit accessibility problems. Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board.
2009
- Steinfeld, A., Maisel, J. L., & Steinfeld, E. (2009). The value of citizen science to promote transit accessibility. First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology.