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Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences (2000)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Cheverst00developinga,
author = {Keith Cheverst and Nigel Davies and Keith Mitchell and Adrian Friday and Christos Efstratiou},
title = {Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences},
booktitle = {},
year = {2000},
pages = {17--24},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the limitations of the traditional information and navigation tools available to city visitors. For example, group-based tours are inherently inflexible with fixed starting times and fixed durations and (like most guidebooks) are constrained by the need to satisfy the interests of the majority rather than the specific interests of individuals. Following a period of requirements capture, involving experts in the field of tourism, we developed and installed a system for use by visitors to Lancaster. The system combines mobile computing technologies with a wireless infrastructure to present city visitors with information tailored to both their personal and environmental contexts. In this paper we present an evaluation of GUIDE, focusing on the quality of the visitors experience when using the system. Keywords Mobile c...
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context-aware electronic tourist guide environmental context system combine present city visitor fixed duration intelligent electronic tourist guide traditional information wireless infrastructure city visitor visitor experience keywords mobile specific interest navigation tool group-based tour requirement capture guide system
