“Nothing of us, without us”: the perception of different users with disabilities in the urban circulation of Campus A. C. Simões from UFAL
accessibility, university environments, accessible routes.
The research proposes to analyze the perception and behavior of different users
based on their experiences of entering and commuting daily at the A. C. Campus.
Simões from the Federal University of Alagoas. Analyze the behavior of
disabled users when traveling along the road
central campus includes monitoring the real conditions of carrying out this
displacement. This route is the main route on foot for a large number of people.
of UFAL students and employees, throughout the entire day of the university routine.
The research considers the central concepts related to the classification of
Components of spatial accessibility in four categories: orientation
spatial, communication, displacement and use (Dischinger, et al, 2014), and will be under
these fundamental concepts that the analyzes will be presented. The main
data collection tool will be the Accompanied Walk (Dischinger, 2000), and
from it, analytical maps and synthetic data tables will be created, to
that the conditions of inaccessibility perceived by the subjects are presented
of the research. The motto adopted by the movement of
people with disabilities (PwD), “Nothing of us, without us” (Charlton, 1998), which
states that no decision that affects them should be taken without their participation.
For this reason, four users representing the disabilities were chosen.
so that they can be research subjects. Each user type observed in the displacement
pre-established group will represent your group, for data analysis purposes, such
groups: person with blindness (PwC), person with deafness (PwS), person in a wheelchair
wheels (PdCR) and person with reduced mobility (PcMR).