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Abstract
In Denmark, there is an increased focus on disabled people having the same possibilities as the rest
of the population. In the public debate the focus are primary at the accessibility and slowly the focus
has change from urban-accessibility towards access to nature and the outdoor recreation. There is
still no regards on the disabled people’s preferences even though they, through their disability, are
limited in their possibilities, and therefore cannot choose freely. The consequence is that they can
only experiences what are made accessible, no matter what they prefer.
The project is focusing on four groups of disabled; hearing-impaired, deaf, sight-impaired and
wheelchair users. We want to, develop a method to classify their nature experiences, to record the
preferences of their nature experience and to construct a model, which calculates the most valuable
path under the preferences.
The preferences of the focus groups are recorded from a survey. In the questionnaires the
respondents have to prioritise their five senses and for each sense prioritise a list of impressions.
The model is constructed in a geographical information system and tested in a specific case area.
There has been made an analysis of the existing paths, which examined the biological- and
experience based values. The model calculates the best path between to waypoints according to the
experience value of each segment. The experience value is a combination of the preferences and the
content of the segments.
The model showed that the preferences have an influence on the groups’ choice of path. The model
was tested through three different scenarios and it was found useful. There were no significant
difference between the preferred paths of the focus groups in each scenario, but there are notable
differences in-between the scenarios. There are only returned 18 questionnaires which are too few
to make firm conclusions, but the study indicates some tendencies which should be researched in a
more thoroughgoing survey. The four focus groups do agree much in their priorities. The most
valued sense are the sight and for each senses is it the impressions found in the nature types,
“forest” and “water”. By comparing the results of the project with the demands required by the
disabled on accessibility, is it possible to classify nature experience in relation to accessibilities and
experience value.
Keywords: Disabled, Preference, Outdoor-recreation, GIS modelling, Cost-weighted-distance, Survey
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