The present study addresses two basic determinants of technology utilization: the attitude
towards a certain technology and the performance when using it. According to the …

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help
us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become …

This research directly assesses older people's neural activation in response to a changing
urban environment while walking, as measured by electroencephalography (EEG). The …

In recent years, the field of Universal Access has made significant progress in consolidating
theoretical approaches, scientific methods and technologies, as well as in exploring new …

Purpose: Localization-based technologies promise to keep older adults with dementia safe
and support them and their caregivers during getting lost events. This paper summarizes …

In this paper we report on a field study comparing a commercial pedestrian navigation
system to a tactile navigation system called Tactile Wayfinder. Similar to previous …

Mobile phones are an attractive platform for landmark-based pedestrian navigation systems.
To be practical, such a system must be able to automatically generate lightweight directions …

The current study was concerned with the basic question of how to overcome users'
disorientation when navigating through hierarchical menus in small-screen technical …

Using landmark-based navigation can greatly improve drivers' route-finding performance.
Previous research in this area has tended to focus on the inclusion of text or icon-based …

Although landmarks are an integral part of navigation, they have rarely been used explicitly
within electronic pedestrian navigation aids. We describe a two-part study into the use of …