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August 28, 2026Cartography and Geographic Information ScienceOpen Access

One mobile map does not fit everyone: a research agenda for responsibly adapting mobile maps for all

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TRTumasch ReichenbacherMBMona BartlingAKArmand Kapaj

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Overview

Review outlines design strategies for adaptive mobile mapping interfaces, highlighting critical safety challenges and the need for user control.

Key Points

  • Synthesize interdisciplinary research on mobile map adaptation and establish a research agenda for creating responsible, context-aware mobile map applications tailored to diverse users.
  • Synthesized findings across context-aware computing, adaptive user interfaces, location-based services, and adaptive cartography.
  • Analyzed the trade-offs of dynamic map guidance through an illustrative context-aware navigation scenario.
  • Defined mobile map adaptation as a system sharing initiative, execution, and control between users and applications.
  • Identified 19 research opportunities spanning seven core domains, including algorithmic explainability, user overreliance, data privacy, and handling spatial uncertainty.

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Reichenbacher et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a916ea0d15324a1df3aa77ahttps://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2026.2710916
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