The increased use of mobile maps in our highly mobile digital culture has resulted in a large
variety of map users and map use situations. For mobile map applications that engage a …

In this article, we present a collective research agenda for mobile-first and responsive
cartographic design. The research agenda explicitly focuses on challenges regarding …

Ryan M. Acton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include GIS, social network analysis …

Adaptive map interfaces have the potential of increasing usability by providing more task
dependent and personalized support. It is unclear, however, how map adaptation must be …

Many applications for mobile devices make use of maps, but because interaction with these
maps can be laborious the applications are often hard to use. Therefore, the usability of …

It is a delicate task to design suitable geovisualisations that allow users an efficient visual
processing of the depicted geographic information. Today, such a design task is subject to …

The aim of personalized maps is to help individual users to read maps and focus on the
most task-relevant information. Several approaches have been suggested to develop …

The most important starting-point for people engaged with map** and cartography must
be the awareness that the maps they produce will have to be used by human beings. To …

Significant interaction challenges arise in both develo** and using interactive map
applications. Users encounter problems of information overload in using interactive maps to …

Over the most recent decades most of the world's civilization has turned into a mobile
information society. Increased mobility has impacted various areas, such as travel and …