Assistant Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the Department of Geography, , the Geographic Systems Analysis Lab (GSAL), and The Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER)
Jim Marston, Ph.D.
Assistant Researcher
1832 Ellison Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-4060
Email: marstonj@geog.ucsb.edu
The Wayfinding Project : Fundamental Issues in Wayfinding Technology, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR (now NIDILRR)). This is a joint project with PI's and investigators from the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (PI John Brabyn), Accessible Design for the Blind, and UCSB (Co PI Jim Marston). This work is unique in that it moves away from typical research using able-bodied human subjects with no usable vision, to include those with hearing loss, the elderly, and those with some useful, but restricted vision.
UCSB Personal Guidance System (2001-2007) with
Jack Loomis (departmental bio page),
Reginald Golledge (wikipedia) and
Roberta Klatzky (departmental bio page)
on a GPS based Personnel Guidance System for the Blind and Visually
Impaired. This was a five year grant from the National Institute on Disability
and Rehabilitation Research entitled "Wayfinding Technologies for People
with Visual Impairments: Research and Development of an Integrated Platform."
The consortium of universities, a research lab, and the private sector is headed
by Mike May from the Sendero Group. For more information see:
UCSB Personal Guidance System and
Sendero Wayfinding Group.
M.A. (1994) University of Illinois at Chicago in Geography. Emphasis on Urban Geography with major interest in transportation management and research on transit systems.
Thesis: "Implications of the Number of Workers Per Household on Travel Behavior." NPTS data of over 17,000 households with 2 or more workers were examined.
B.A. (1992) University of Illinois at Chicago in Sociology.