Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• "Maps are hard for me": Identifying How Older Adults Struggle with Mobile Maps

  Ja Eun Yu, Debaleena Chattopadhyay (2020) — ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This short paper from the University of Illinois at Chicago examines how older adults (aged 60+) use Google Maps on their own mobile devices and identifies the specific accessibility challenges they encounter. While smartphone ownership among US adul…

  • older adults
  • mobile accessibility
  • mobile maps
  • touchscreen
  • cognitive accessibility
  • visual saliency
  • affordances
  • information scent
  • usability