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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| II.Basic concept of
the general principles of universal design policy |
5. Providing for diverse activities based on technology,
methods, etc.
Measures must be undertaken to
provide for diverse human activities, tourism and others that are not parts
of people's daily lives and the activities of foreigners that are expected
to continue to increase, while measures are taken to meet new needs resulting
from the advance of IT for example. Measures must be taken guided by predictions
of a variety of human activities based on the concept of universal design.
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Measures to support tourism and other
activities not part of people's daily lives |
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In tourist regions, at tourism
facilities, and in hotels, barriers must be removed and other measures
taken to provide for tourism and other activities that are not part
of people's daily lives.
And because tourists are
not aware of the geography of the regions they visit, it is important
to create environments where they can travel smoothly by easily finding
out where they are and how to reach their destinations. |
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Providing environments to accept foreigners |
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Along with measures intended
to make Japan a tourism power visited by 10 million foreign travelers
per year by 2010, environments foreigners can visit must be created
by providing information to foreigners and completing signs in foreign
languages. |
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Using IT to provide universal information
(constructing Ubiquitous computing environment *7
etc.) |
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Ubiquitous computing environments
is being constructed thanks to the advance of IT, but it is also counted
on to permit the provision of needed information to many kinds of
people anytime and anywhere to contribute to the creation of a society
in which every person can exercise his or her individuality and capabilities
and participate fully in society to achieve self-actualization. For
this reason ubiquitous network technology *8,
GIS *9 etc. must be applied to implement
measures to complete the provision of information. |
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Ubiquitous computing environment:
Ubiquitous is a Latin word that means "exists everywhere".
so this term means an environment in which information systems of
all kinds are linked in a network, allowing everyone to exchange information
safely at any time and in any place. |
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Ubiquitous network technology:
It is information communication technology (ICT) that forms an environment
for the use of a network linking everything and everybody at any time,
anywhere (ubiquitous network) by forming a wide area network of all
kinds of information systems. |
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GIS: This is an acronym
for Geographic Information System. It is technology that permits users
to perform advanced analysis and make instant judgements by performing
integrated control, processing, and visual display of data including
information about a location (spatial data) by entering a geographical
location. |
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