Gerd Berget|Andrew MacFarlane
What Is Known About the Impact of Impairments on Information Seeking and Searching?
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University|City, University of London
information seeking access essential users walks life addressing personal needs finding flights locating information needed complete work tasks past decade general needs people impairments increasingly recognized something addressed issue embedded international treaties state legislation tendency found research growing number user studies including people impairments conducted purpose studies typically uncover potential barriers access information especially context inaccessible search user interfaces literature review provides overview research information seeking searching users impairments aim provide overview researchers practitioners work user groups identified diagnoses relatively well represented literature instance visual impairment little work areas instance autism cases work instance aphasia gaps identified research suggestions made regarding areas research needed