Our Ph.D. student, Huan Ning, attended the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) 2024 Summer Workshop on August 14, 2024, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. He presented a project funded by the NaNDA Pilot Grant Award. The project is titled “Developing a Novel Wheelchair Mobility Index for Wheelchair Users using Street View Imagery and Artificial Intelligence”; it aims to develop a wheelchair mobility index at house and neighborhood level using street view images, while the methods created can be extended to a universal built environment auditing toolkit. Huan also shared research ideas about autonomous agents for data analysis, data downloading, and phenomena modeling with the other attendees.
NaNDA data archive collects datasets about the physical, economic, demographic, and social environment at multiple geographic levels, such as census tract, ZIP code tabulation area, and county. Users can access these updated da
tasets from NaNDA’s website. NaNDA was initiated by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and was founded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Institute and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research.
