A System to Promote Walking for the Elderly and Empower Tourism: The Sweet Mobility Project

Mediating Social Tourism Experiences Through a Mobile Application

“…The literature reveals some remarkable projects addressing the use of mobile applications for the elderly in tourism. For example, E 2 (Khadraoui et al, 2014) comprises a web system and a mobile application that aims to allow the elderly to plan their trips in line with their constraints and preferences; Trip 4 All (Signoretti et al, 2015) is a mobile application that works as a gamified virtual assistant to the elderly during a walking tourist visits; Sweet Mobility (Borrelli et al, 2015) is a smartphone-based system to promote walking for the elderly and empower tourism; and finally, iTourism Travel Buddy (Ismail et al, 2016) is a mobile tourism application that supports tourism information with assistive travel features to help tourists by using technology that is closest to them.…”