Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describe a smart city initiative presenting a mobile tourist guide developed for Natal, Brazil.
Design/methodology/approach
– This study has employed an exploratory case study approach to gain more knowledge about a smart city initiative and a mobile tourist guide in Brazil. The city of Natal was selected for this case study since it was one of the host cities during the FIFA World Cup 2014. The collected data for this research came from government (e.g. Natal Smart City plan), academic sources (e.g. Metropole Digital Institute (IMD)), and tourists’ information from the mobile tourist guide application.
Findings
– The smart city initiative of Natal, and the mobile tourist guide (named Find Natal) responsible for collecting, processing, sharing, storing and analysing the tourist behaviour were detailed in the paper. The Smart City Consortium in Natal is developing an interoperable and distributed infrastructure that is advancing the state-of-the-art in information and communication technologies (ICT) for planning and managing smart cities. The IMD implemented an application, which aims to enhance the traveller’s experience through software programs designed to leverage the infrastructure mechanisms behind the city. The data gathered by the application was analysed to show how it was used during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Originality/value
– The results show a developed ICT initiative in a Latin American country. This study offers a starting point for destinations willing to implement and deploy a smart city initiative.
Este artigo apresenta uma avaliação de usabilidade da interface gráfica do ROTA-PVM, um aplicativo móvel voltado para segurança pública, utilizando do método heurístico MATcH-Customização de Heurísticas de Usabilidade para Celulares Touchscreen. Tal avaliação identificou um alto nível de usabilidade do aplicativo e apontou ainda alguns aspectos a serem melhorados.
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