How can we engage people to map places suitable for the autistic population? A crowdsourced approach

The crowdsourcing paradigm applied to the urban environment (i.e., people while moving can provide data from different places) may play a fundamental role in transforming users in significant actors of the places in which they live. In the last years, several crowdsourcing services have been developed to allow citizens to collaborate, by collecting data about urban accessibility. This effort, however, focused mainly on physical disabilities. We aim to help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move across and live in urban environments by means of a crowdsourced personalized map. The map is populated with comments and reviews by people with ASD and caregivers, in order to highlight places, routes, and activities (e.g., less crowded routes, quiet places) to make ASD people's daily lives more comfortable.