Curriculum Vitae

JAMES ROBERT MARSTON, PH.D.

Assistant Researcher
Department of Geography

University of California Santa Barbara, Ca 93106-4060
Email: marstonj@geog.ucsb.edu

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EDUCATION

2002    Ph.D. in Geography with Emphasis in Cognitive Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Dissertation : "Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage"

1992 - 1994 M.A. in Environmental and Urban Geography
University of Illinois at Chicago
Thesis: "Implications of the Number of Workers per Household on Travel Behavior."

1992 B.A. in Sociology, History minor
University of Illinois at Chicago


GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006-2009 $1,500,000 (UCSB subcontract $150,000) from National Institute for Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) U.S. Department of Education award #H133A060056 Fundamental Issues in Wayfinding Technolog. Contributing author (PI John Branyn)

2006-2007 $126,000 Phase I STTR grant from National Institutes of Health and National Eye Institute, Grant # R41 EY017516-01A1, "A Wearable Multisensor Navigation Device for the Visually Impaired," Consultant (PI Vladimir Kulyukin)

2003-2005 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Identification and Mitigation of Physical Barriers that Limit Access to Education for People with Various Mobility Limitations:  Increasing Environmental Access through Improved Methods of Information Delivery.

2000-2002 $7,500 from University of California Transportation Center for Empirical Measurement of Barriers to Public Transit for the Vision-Impaired and the Use of Remote Infrared Auditory Signage for Mitigation

1998 - 2000 $66,256 from the University of California Transportation Center Grant # 65V430, Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers for the Blind and Vision Impaired: A Case for Auditory Signs. co-Author and investigator (P.I. Reginald Golledge)

OTHER GRANT RESEARCH PARTICIPATION

2000 - 2001 Individuals' Spatial Abilities and Behavior in Transportation Networks, NSF grant #9986475 (P.I. Reginald Golledge)

1999 - 2000 Off-Route Strategies in Non Visual Navigation, NSF grant #SBR9818545 (P.I. Reginald Golledge)

1994 - 1995 The Mass Transit Needs of a Non-Driving Disabled Population, Caltrans/PATH Grant #MOU 157 (P.I. Reginald Golledge)

1993 - 1994 NPTS Data Travel Behavior of Multiworker Households, Federal Highway Administration HPM-40 (P.I. S.. Soot)


TEACHING

Lecturer                 University of California Santa Barbara

        2003-  Department of Geography
                  Geog 153E  Geography of Everyday Life
                  Geog 230    Behavioral Geography   Graduate Seminar (Team Taught)

Graduate Teaching Assistant    

University of California, Santa Barbara

Winter 2002
Geog 5
Human Geography
Winter 2000
Geog 5
Human Geography
Fall 1998
Geog 146
Transportation Systems
Winter 1998
Geog 5
Human Geography
Fall 1997
Geog 108
Urban Geography
Spring 1997
Geog 5
Human Geography
Winter 1997
Geog 5
Human Geography
Fall 1996
Geog 117b
Research Methods
Winter 1996
Geog 5
Human Geography
Fall 1995
Geog 108
Urban Geography
Fall 1994
Geog 5
Human Geography


    University of Illinois at Chicago

Spring 1994
Geog 483
Quantitative methods I

Geog 481
Geographic Information Systems
Fall 1993
Geog 482
Quantitative methods II

Geog 481
Geographic Information Systems
Spring 1993
Geog 150
Physical Geography

Geog 151
Urban Geography

Geog 210
Astronomy



PUBLICATION AND GRANT REVIEW

2004 Grant proposal review panel, Project ACTION, "A Toolkit for Bus Stop Accessibility and Safety"

Ad hoc reviewer

Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design
Transportation Research Board
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans
Urban Studies Journal
Journal of Experimental Psychology

 

SERVICE

2008-2011 Member, City of Santa Barbara Access Advisory Committee
2008-09 Scientific Organizing Committee, Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments, Worclaw, Poland

2007 Peer Review Panel, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness

2007-08 Scientific Organizing Committee, Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments, Granada, Spain

2007 Member, UCSB ACCA Subcommittee - Campus Path of Travel

2007 Member, UCSB ACCA Subcommittee - Cell Site Fundingl

2006 Vice Chair, "Assistive Technology, Education, Training and Accessibility" session, 2006 CVHI conference, Kufstein, Austria

2006 Member, UCSB ADA Subcommittee - Transportation

2006-2010 Member of the Accessible Transportation and Mobility Committee (ABE60), Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

2006 Chair, "Visual Impairment and Navigation" session, 2006 AAG Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2005 Member, Association of American Geographers Diversity Task Force

2005 Member, Board of Directors, BlindMatters Foundation, Inc.

2004-Member, ADA Projects Subcommittee of the UCSB ADA Committee.

2004 disABILITY Awareness Week, UCSB

2004 Co-Organizer & Co-Chair, “Frontiers of Behavioral Geography” session, 2004 AAG Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2003  Chairperson, Conference session on Spatial Cognition: Differential Studies” 2nd International Conference on Spatial Cognition, University of Rome, Italy 

2003  Member, Planning Committee for Disabllity Awareness Week at UCSB  

2003- Academic Advisor for the "Committee on Disability Access" UCSB

2003- Lead Investigator for Physical Access, "Committee on Disability Access" UCSB

2002- Member of the Equity Funding Subcommittee of the UCSB ADA Committee

2001 Assistant Organizer, COSIT '01", Fifth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Morro Bay, CA 

2001- 2003 Consultant to the Wayfinding Foundation, a non-profit group advocating for blind accessibility, Baton Rouge, LA

2001 Chair, Geography of Exclusion Session, 2001 AAG Meeting, New York

2000- Project Coordinator, Campus Access Mapping, UCSB

2000- Project Director, Remote Infrared Audible Signage, UCSB

2000-2003 Advisor to Associated Students Commission on Disability Access (CODA)

1998-02 Member of the Access Subcommittee of the ADA Committee

1998-00 Member of DACA, The Disability Advisory Committee on Access for the City of Santa Barbara, CA

1997-02 Graduate Student Association Representative to the UCSB ADA Committee

1996-97 Disability Liaison to the UCSB Ombuds Office

1995-97 Founding Board Member of The UCSB Disability Awareness And Advocacy Coalition (DAAC)


AWARDS AND HONORS 

2004 Invited participant, State-of-the-Science Conference on Rehabilitation Technology and Methods for a Changing Population, June 4, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC), The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA

2004 Invited participant, Scientific workshop on Blindness, Brain Plasticity, and Spatial Function. March 11-14, National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health andVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

2004  University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

2003 “Best Conference Paper Award,” Scientific Committee, 2nd International Conference on Spatial Cognition, University of Rome, Italy

2003  University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

2003  University of California's University Service Award.

2003  UCSB Graduate Student Association's Dixon-Levy Service Award for "Selfless, Untiring Service to the Improvement of Graduate Student Life."

2001 "Graduate Dissertation Fellowship," University of California Transportation Center

2001 "Excellence in Research" Award, UCSB Department of Geography

2001 "Accessibility Achievement Award" from the Commission on Disability Access (CODA) University of California at Santa Barbara 

2001 "Graduate Excellence Award for Co-Curricular Activity" nominee, UCSB Office of Student Life

2001 "Most Creative Program" and "Outstanding Group Achievement," UCSB Office of Student Life. 2 awards for Disability Commission that I helped form and advised

1995 "Excellence in Teaching" nominee, Graduate Student Association 

1994-2001 Graduate Fellowship and Tuition Support Department of Geography UCSB

1992-1994 Graduate Tuition Support / Summer Stipend University of Illinois at Chicago


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., Ross, D., Marston, J., & Gaunet, F. (2008). The Blind Leading The Blind: Toward Collaborative Online Route Information Management by Individuals with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the AAI Social Information Processing Symposium, AAI Press, 54-59.

Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, N. A., Marston, J. R., Tietz, J., Golledge, R. G., & Loomis, J. M. (2008). An N-back Task Using Vibrotactile Stimulation. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1), 367-372.

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. L., & Golledge, R. G. (2007). Nonvisual Route Following with Guidance from a Simple Haptic or Auditory Display. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 101(4), 203-211.

Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L., & Marston, J. R. (2007). Assisting wayfinding in visually impaired travelers. In G. L. Allen (Ed.), Applied spatial cognition: From research to cognitive technology. (pp. 179-203). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Klatzky, R. L., Marston, J. R., Giudice, N. A., Golledge, R. G., & Loomis, J. M. (2006). Cognitive Load of Navigating without Vision when Guided by Virtual Sound versus Spatial Language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12(4), 223-232

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. L., Golledge, R. G., & Smith, E. L. (2006). Evaluation of Spatial Displays for Navigation Without Sight, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 3(2), 110-124.

Marston, J. R., & Church, R. L. 2005). A Relative Access Measure to Identify Barriers to Efficient Transit Use by Persons with Visual Impairments. Disability and Rehabilitation. 27(13), 769-779.

Loomis, J. M., Marston, J. R., Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L., (2005). Personal guidance system for visually impaired people: Comparison of spatial displays for route guidance, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 99(4), 219-232

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., & Klatzky, R. L. (2004). Stated preferences for components of a Personal Guidance System for non-visual navigation. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 98(3), 135-147.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2003) The Hidden Demand for Activity Participation and Travel by People with Vision Impairment or Blindness, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 97(8), 475-488.   

Church, R. L., Marston, J. R. (2003) Measuring Accessibility for People with a Disability, Geographical Analysis. 35, (1), 85-96

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1997). Attitudes of visually impaired persons toward the use of public transportation. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 91(5), 446-459.

Marston, J. R., Golledge, R. G., & Costanzo, C. M. (1997). Investigating travel behavior of nondriving blind and vision impaired people: The role of public transit. The Professional Geographer, 49(2), 235-245.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Marston, J. R., Brabyn, J. A., & Miele, J. A. (2008). A Consumer Based Approach To The Design And Development Of Travel Related Assistive Devices For The Blind And Visually Impaired. Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, New York, New York.

Giudice, N. A., Marston, J. R., Klatzky, R. L., Loomis, J. M., & Golledge, R. G. (2008). Environmental Learning without Vision: Effects of Cognitive Load on Interface Design. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Low Vision, Vision 2008, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Marston, J. R., Miele, J. A., & Smith, E. L. (2007). Large Print Map Automated Production (LPMAP). Proceedings of the XXIII International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia.

Darden, J. T., et al. (2006). FINAL REPORT AN ACTION STRATEGY FOR GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENTS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE: A REPORT OF THE AAG DIVERSITY TASK FORCE.

Church, R., Noronha, V., Lei, T., Corrigan, W., Burbidge, S., & Marston, J. (2005). Spatial and Temporal Utility Modeling to Increase Transit Ridership (Final Report No. UCB-ITS-PRR-2005-22): California Partners for Advanced transit and Highways (PATH).

Miele, J. A., & Marston, J. R., (2005), Tactile Map Automated Production (TMAP): Project Update And Research Summary. Procedings of the CSUN 20th Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities", Los Angeles, CA

Marston, J. R. (2004). Spatial knowledge Acquisition and the Blind: The Effect of Environmental Auditory Cues on Spatial Awareness. CVHI 2004 EURO-ASSIST-VHI-3, Proceedings of the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, Support Technologies for Independent Living and Work, Granada, Spain

Marston, J.R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004) Quantitative And Qualitative Analysis Of Barriers To Travel By Persons With Visual Impairments And Its Mitigation Through Accessible Signage, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People, TRANSED 2004, Hamamatsu, Japan

Marston, J. R. (2002). Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage. Unpublished Dissertation, Santa Barbara, California.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R.G. (2001), Empirical Measurement of Barriers to Public Transit for the Vision-Impaired and the use of Remote Infrared Auditory Signage for Mitigation ,  Proceedings of the California State University Northridge Conference on Technology and Disability. Los Angeles, CA.

Marston, J .R., & Golledge, R. G. (2000) Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers to Independent travel for Blind and Vision Impaired: A Case for Auditory Signs. Final Report, University of California Berkeley: University of California Transportation Center, Grant # UCTC 65V430, June.

Golledge, R. G., & Marston, J. R. (1999) Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers to Independent travel for Blind and Vision Impaired Residents and Visitors. Final Report, University of California PATH Research Project, UCB-ITS-PDR-99-33, September.

Okunuki, K., Church, R., & Marston, J (1999) A Study on a System for Guiding of the Optimal Route with a Hybrid Network and Grid Data Structure. In Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association Japan, 8, 135-138 (Japanese).

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1999) Assistive Devices and Services for the Disabled: Continuation Proposal. Final Report to the University of California Richmond Field Station PATH Division in fulfillment of Grant (MOU343) (65A0013), June.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1998) Assistive Devices and Services for the Disabled: Auditory Signage and the Accessible City for Blind and Vision Impaired Traveler. California PATH Working Paper, UCB-ITS-PWP-98-18, Report for MOU 276, August.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1998) Improving Transit Access for the Blind and Vision Impaired , Intellimotion, Research Updates in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transit Research Issue, Vol. 7, No. 2, 4-11.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1998). Removing functional barriers: Public transit and the blind and vision impaired, Proceedings of the 1997 Society for Disability Studies, 10th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1998) Assistive Devices and Services for the Disabled. Final Report. University of California Achievement Field Station PATH Division Grant #MOU 276, February.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1996). The impact of information access on transit behavior of blind or vision impaired people. Research Conference Proceedings: Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information and the City (Technical Report 96-10): National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA).

Golledge, R. G., Costanzo, M. C., & Marston, J. R. (1996). Public transit use by non-driving disabled persons: The case of the blind and vision impaired (California PATH Working Paper UCB-ITS-PWP-96-1): Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH).

Golledge, R. G., Costanzo, C. M., & Marston, J. R. (1995). The mass transit needs of a non-driving disabled population (Final Report MOU167): University of California Richmond Field Station PATH Division.

Soot, S., Sen, A., Marston, J., & Thakuriah, P.(1995). Multiworker Household Travel Demand. In 1990 National Personal Transportation Survey Report Series, Demographic Special Reports, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, February

Marston, J. R., Walsh, J., Wertimier, K., & Yang, L. (1994, June 17). Complex trip chains and their effect on transit ridership. Paper presented at the Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research Proceedings at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Soot, S., Sen, A., Marston, J. R., & Thakuriah, P. (1994). Multiworker household travel demand (Demographic Special Reports HPM-40). Washington, DC: Office of Highway Management.


CONFIRMED PRESENTATIONS


INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Marston, J. R., (2009, May 7), Travel Planning, Independent Travel and Access to Transit for the Visually Impaired: Assistive Technologies in the United States, Invited presentation at the Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Accessibility( (ICTA 09), Hammamet, Tunisia

Marston, J. R., (2009, April 29), Travel and Wayfinding Assistance for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Research from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Invited presentation at the research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication (UTIC), Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (ESSTT), University of Tunis, Tunisia

Marston, J. R., (2009, April 20), Considerations in Designing Research to Evaluate Wayfinding Technologies, Invited tutorial presentation at the Conference on Vision and Hearing Impairments (CVHI-09), Wroclaw, Poland

Marston, J. R., Golledge, R.., G., Loomis, J. M, Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, N. A., (2009, March 6), Using Audio Cues to Enhance Navigation and Spatial Learning for the Blind, Invited presentation at the SOUND + SCIENCE Symposium, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA.

Marston, J.R., (2009, March 4), Enhancement of Spatial Cognition and Wayfinding for Vision- Impaired Travelers using Remote Infrared Audible Signage, Invited presentation at the ThinkSpatial Forum on Spatial Thinking, spatial@UCSB, University of California Santa Barbara, CA

Marston, J. R., Miele, J. A., (2008, July 8), Criteria for Automated Large Print Map Production, Invited paper at Vision 2008 - The 9th International Conference on Low Vision, Montreal, Canada

Marston, J.R., Golledge, R. G., Loomis, J. M, Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, N. A., (2008, April 10) Substituting for Vision: Field Experiments with Several Orientation and Navigation Devices, Vision Research Seminar Series, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Marston, J.R., Golledge, R. G., Loomis, J. M, Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, N. A., (2008, April 9) Accessible and Portable Navigation Devices for the Blind: Interface Options, Atlanta Center for the Visually Impaired and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Marston, J.R., Golledge, R. G., Loomis, J. M, Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, , N. A., (2008, April 9) . Substituting for Vision: Field Experiments with Several Orientation and Navigation Devices, Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence in Vision Loss, Atlanta, GA

Loomis, J. M, Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L., Marston, J.R., Giudice,, N. A., (2008, April 1) Twenty years of research on the Personal Guidance System: What did we learn?, ThinkSpatial Forum on Spatial Thinking, spatial@UCSB, University of California Santa Barbara, CA

Marston, J. R., Miele, J. A., & Smith, E. L., (2007, August 7) Large Print Map Automated Production (LPMAP), Invited paper at the XXIII International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia.

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (2007, August 7) Using Virtual Spatialized Output to Augment and Improve the User Interface of GPS Navigation Systems for People who are Blind, Invited paper at the XXIII International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia.

Marston, J. R., Klatzky, R.L., Giudice, N.A., Loomis, J. M., & Golledge, R. G. (2007, April 19) Measuring Cognitive Load of Non-Visual Navigation Interfaces, Invited paper at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 104tnd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., & Klatzky, R.L. (2007, April 19), Wayfinding Without Sight: The Haptic Pointer Interface, Invited paper at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 104tnd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Marston, J.R., (2006, Sept. 12) Spatial knowledge acquisition: Using technology, training, and techniques to enhance spatial learning for two special populations. Invited presentation at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition.. Symposium: The cognition of geographic space and cognitive mapping in disabled, Rome and Perugia, Italy.

Marston, J.R. & Golledge, R. G.., (2006, Sept 1) Using Remote Infrared Audible Cues to Increase Spatial Knowledge Acquisition for Persons Who are Blind or Visually Impaired in a Multimodal Transportation Environment. Invited "guest speaker" at the IEEE 2006 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Session: Information-Based Support Technologies for Persons with Visual Disabilities, New York, NY

Marston, J.R., (2006, July 18) Public Transportation and Visually Impaired People: a Participatory Tutorial, Invited presentation at the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment- Technology for Inclusion, CVHI 2006 EURO-ASSIST-VHI-4, Kufstein, Austria.

Marston, J.R. (February 21,2006) Improvising Access to Urban Opportunities and Transit with Location-based Remote Infrared Audible Signage (RIAS). Invited presentation at A Public Meeting To Discuss The Remote Infrared Audible Signage Model Accessibility Project (RIAS MAP): A National Access and Research Opportunity, The LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, CA.

Marston, J., Long, R., Barlow, J., Golledge, R., May, M., Guth, D. (October 6, 2005) Increasing the Availability of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Information in Wayfinding Devices for Individuals Who are Blind. Invited presentation (by R. Long & J. Barlow) at the first World Congress on Blind Wayfinding Technology, Jernigan Institute National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD

Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L. & Marston, J. R., (October 6, 2005) Incorporating virtual sound and other spatial displays into the user interface of future blind navigation systems. Invited presentation (by J. Marston) at the first World Congress on Blind Wayfinding Technology, Jernigan Institute National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD

Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L. & Marston, J. R., (October 6, 2005) User-centered design of assistive technology. Invited presentation (by J. Marston) at the first World Congress on Blind Wayfinding Technology, Jernigan Institute National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (2005, April 1) Intuitive, egocentric, and personal navigation devices for the visually impaired: Field tests from outdoor and indoor environments, Invited presentation, The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (2005, March 11) Intuitive and egocentric wayfinding for persons who are visually impaired: Experimental data from indoor and outdoor environments. Invited presentation at the Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2005, January 10) Quantitative and qualitative analysis of barriers to travel by persons with visual impairments and its mitigation through accessible signage. Invited presentation for the session "The 10th Annual Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People: Best Practices" at the 84th Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (2004, November 1) Access Solutions: Applying Geographic Techniques to Understand, Research, and Solve Problems of Access for Persons with Physical Disabilities. Invited presentation at the School of Social Sciences Workshop Lecture Series, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

Marston, J. R., (2004, October 13) Section 504,the ADA, and Access to a University Education. Invited presentation at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, July 22) Enabling Blind Pedestrian in the Public Right of Way and Public Transportation. Invited presentation at the American Public Transportation Association and Federal Transit Administration conference Linking Technology With Mobility for Seniors and People with Disabilities, San Francisco, CA

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, July 5). Barriers to Public Transportation: Empirical Data from Blind Users of a Multi-Modal Transit Terminal. Invited presentation at ONCE (Spanish National Organization of the Blind), sponsored by the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (2004, June, 30) Public Transportation and the Visually Impaired: Identification of Problems and Barriers, Measurements of Accessibility, and Technological Methods to Increase Usage and Travel Participation. Invited workshop presented at the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, Support Technologies for Independent Living and Work” Granada, Spain Abstract

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, May, 31), Functional Barrier Identification and Spatial Knowledge Acquisition: Empirical Data from Blind Users of a Multi-Modal Transit Terminal, Invited presentation at Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L., (2004, May 20) Evolution of UCSB's Personal Guidance System and GPS Technologies for the Blind. Invited presentation at the FY(2004) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) "IT Barrier Free Project for Disable Person" consortium project Standardizing Investigation Committee, Tokyo, Japan.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2003, February, 20) Increasing Access to Urban Opportunities with Remote Infrared Audible Signage: A Multi-Modal Field Study. Invited presentaion, Vision Loss in the 21st Century: Everybody's Business, Beverley Hills, CA

Marston, J .R., & Golledge, R. G. (2000, August 16) Towards an Accessible City: Removing Functional Barriers to Independent travel for Blind and Vision Impaired: A Case for Auditory Signs. Invited presentation, U.S. Access Board Public Rights of Way Access Advisory Committee, Meeting 4, San Francisco, California.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Myers, L., Scott, A.C., Bentzen, B.L., Marston, J.R., and Barlow, J.M. (2009, March 18). Evaluating wayfinding technologies - some considerations. Paper presented at the 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Marston, J.R., Klatzky, R. L., Giudice, N. A., Loomis, J. M, Golledge, R. G., (2008, July 8) Measuring Blind Users' Cognitive Load when using various Navigation Interfaces, Vision 2008 - The 9th International Conference on Low Vision, Montreal, Canada

Marston, J.R., Golledge, R. G., (2008, July 7), Evaluation of performance efficacy of blind travelers using Remote Infrared Audible Signage (RIAS) in an urban multi-model transit terminal, Vision 2008 - The 9th International Conference on Low Vision, Montreal, Canada

Kulyukin, V., Nicholson, J., Ross, D., Marston, J., & Gaunet, F. (2008, March). The Blind Leading The Blind: Toward Collaborative Online Route Information Management by Individuals with Visual Impairments. Paper presented at the AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium, Palo Alto, CA.

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. K., & Golledge, R. (2007). A haptic pointer interface for a personal guidance system. Paper presented at the Tactile Research Group Meeting. Specialty group of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G., (2007, August 7) Understanding Problems And Barriers To Transit Use By Persons Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired poster session at the XXIII International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2007, June 20) Identification of Environmental Barriers and Insecurities that Affect Independent Travel and Transit. Presented at TRANSED2007, 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People, "Benchmarking, Evaluation and Vision for the Future". Montreal, Canada

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G. & Klatzky, R.L., (2006, March 10) Using Perceptual Displays including Virtual Sound to Augment the User Interface of GPS Navigation Systems for People who are Blind. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 102td Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Miele, J. A. & Marston, J.R. ( 2005, April 7) Tactile Map Automated Production (TMAP): On-Demand Accessible Street Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers, Paper presented (by J. Miele) at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 101th Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G .(2005, April 5) Understanding problems and barriers to transit use by persons who are blind or visually impaired, Vision 2005, London, UK

Marston, J. R., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R.G. & Klatzky, R. L. (2005, April 4) Improving the user interface of GPS navigation systems for blind people: spatialized displays that augment speech information, Vision 2005, London, UK

Miele, J. A., & Marston, J. R. (2005, March 16), Tactile Map Automated Production (TMAP): Project Update And Research Summary. Paper presented at CSUN 20th Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities", Los Angeles, CA

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, July 2) Spatial Knowledge Acquisition And The Blind: The Effect Of Environmental Auditory Cues On Spatial Awareness. Paper presented at the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, Support Technologies for Independent Living and Work” Granada, Spain

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, May 25) Quantitative and qualitative analysis of barriers to travel by persons with visual impairments and its mitigation through accessible signage. Paper presented at TRANSED2004, 10th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People, Universal Transportation and Road Design: Strategies for Success” Hamamatsu, Japan

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, May 15) Disability and Accessibility: How do we quantify barriers to equal access and how do new technologies mitigate these barriers? 2004 University of California President's Fellows Spring Retreat, UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, April 15) Bridging the Gap Toward Independence: Talking Signs® as an Accessibility Aid for People with Age-Related Vision Impairments. 2004 Joint Conference of The National Council on the Aging and the American Society on Aging, San Francisco, CA.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (2004, March 18) Using Auditory Environmental Cues to Measure Spatial Learning Ability of the Blind. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 100th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Marston, J. R., & Church, R.L., (2004, January 13) A Relative Access Measure to Identify Barriers to Efficient Transit Use by Persons with Visual Impairments., Paper presented at the 83rd Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.

Marston, J. R.,& Golledge, R. G. (2003, November, 25) Analysis of Barriers to Travel by Persons with Visual Impairments: The Effects of Auditory Signage, Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Spatial Cognition, University of Rome, Italy

Marston, J. R.,& Golledge, R. G. (2001, September 16) Equal Access to Urban Opportunities: Measurement and Mitigation of Travel Barriers for People with Restrictive Vision. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) 64th Annual Meeting in Santa Barbara, California.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R.G. (2001, March 20), Empirical Measurement of Barriers to Public Transit for the Vision-Impaired and the use of Remote Infrared Auditory Signage for Mitigation. Paper presented at CSUN 16th Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities," Los Angeles, CA.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R.G. (2001, March 3) Equal Access or Transit Subsidies, what does the ADA mandate? Limits to transit choice and activities (unequal access) and monetary trade-offs for equal access reported by the vision impaired. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 97th Annual Meeting in New York, New York.

Marston, J. R. & Golledge, R. G. (2001, Jan 3) Transit way finding and orientation for visually impaired. Paper presented (by Billie Bentzen) at the TRB Human Factors Workshop, Can You Catch the Bus? Pedestrian Access to Transit Stops, Washington, D.C.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R.G. (2000, April 6) Constricted Space and the Blind Traveler: Reduced Expectations and Limits to Travel and Activity Behavior. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 96th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1999, May 30) Equal Access to Transit? Blind Transit User's Evaluations of Remote Infrared Signage Systems, Paper presented at the Society for Disability Studies 12th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Marston, J., & Golledge, R. G. (1999, March 26). Learning spatial configurations using auditory cues: The use of a remote infrared signage system in an urban transit environment. 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1998, June 4) Toward an Accessible City: The Use of Auditory Signage for the Vision and Print Handicapped. Paper presented at the Society for Disability Studies 11th Annual Meeting in Oakland, California

Marston, J. R., (1998, March 26) An Objective Measure to Identify Problematic Access Routes. ADA Advisory Committee, University of California, Sata Barbara, CA

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R.G. (1998, March 26) Exploring terra incognita: Removing functional barriers for the blind traveler using auditory signs. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 94th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C. M. (1998, February). Assistive Devices and Services for the Disabled: Auditory Signage and the Accessible City for Blind and Vision Impaired Travelers. Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at the University of California Richmond Field Station PATH Division in fulfillment of Grant (MOU276) Berkeley, CA.

Golledge, R. G., & Marston, J. R., (1997, October 28) Emerging Technologies for Making Cities Accessible to Disabled Persons: The Case of the Blind or Vision Impaired, Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at Bureau of Transportation Statistics Seminar, Emerging Technologies for Making Cities Accessible to Disabled Persons, Washington, D.C.

Golledge, R. G., & Marston, J. R., (1997, August 9) Talking Signs and the Accessible City, Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at PATH Conference, Richmond Field Station, Berkeley, CA.

Marston, J. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1997, May 23). Removing functional barriers: Public transit and the blind and vision impaired. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, Minneapolis, MN.

Marston, J. R., Golledge, R. G., & Costanzo, C.M. (1997, April 2) Travel Behavior and Transit use by the Blind and Vision Impaired. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 93rd Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C.M. (1997, January) Use of Mass Transit by Non-driving Disabled People. Invited talk presented (by R. Golledge) at the University of California at Davis

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C.M. (1996, Nov.) Activity Patterns and Transit Use by a Blind or Vision Impaired Population. Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at the Regional Science Association International 43rd Annual North American Meeting

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C.M., (1996, Sept) The Impact of Information Access on Travel Behavior of Blind and Vision Impaired People. Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at the Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City, an NCGIA sponsored research Conference, Baltimore, MD

Golledge, R. G., Marston, J. R., & Costanzo, C.M., (1996, Sept) The Use of Public Transit by a Disabled Population: The case of the Blind and Vision Impaired. Paper presented (by R. Golledge) at the Geography Department, George Mason University, Washington, DC.

Golledge, R. G., Costanzo, C. M., & Marston, J. R. (1995, October 29-November 1). Why don't disabled people use public transit? Paper presented (by J. Marston) at INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), New Orleans, LA.

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