Assisting Tourists on the Move- An Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides

Grün, Christoph; Werthner, Hannes; Pröll, Birgit; Retschitzegger, Werner; Schwinger, Wieland

doi:10.1109/icmb.2008.28

Cited by 61 publications

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“…1381 used audio chipset to provide audio information, LISTEN was developed for using in a museum, PEACH used RFID to recognize user's position, and TellMaris was used for guiding maritime tourists on a boat. Finally, some commercial mobile tour guides such as "Mobile Travel Buddy," "Mobile Travel Guide," "Do Me London" are released based on accumulated technology [28]. Except mentioned prototypes or commercial products, there have been lots of research and attempts over decades.…”

Section: B Mobile Tour Guidesmentioning

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A u-tour system for a tour leader in a guided group package tour

Yoo

Yang²,

Jeong

2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA)

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Tour" is an emotional word to lots of people. When a person decides to take a trip, one can be classified into two types of tourists, an active and passive tourist. An active tourist has to prepare everything for the satisfactory tour. On the contrary, a passive tourist who is generally inclined to use a guided group package tour prepares less something than an active tourist. Thus, much research and many attempts have been conducted to help an active tourist. In contrast, little research and few attempts have been conducted for a passive tourist in a guided group package tour. However, responsibilities of a tour leader in a guided group package tour are very important for guaranteeing satisfactory tours. In this paper, we proposed the u-Tour system which can help a tour leader and passive tourists. A tour leader can easily check the roll of tourists, and offer oral relevant information at each visiting place. Tourists can satisfactorily listen to the relevant information at each visiting place. Additionally, tourists don't need to worry about straying from a group at unfamiliar places.

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Section: B Mobile Tour Guidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A u-tour system for a tour leader in a guided group package tour

Yoo

Yang²,

Jeong

2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA)

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“…Os autores distinguem, também, entre aplicações para download e aplicações móveis baseadas na web. Grün et al (2008) desenvolveram uma tipologia que considera os serviços oferecidos aos turistas durante a sua estadia no destino, considerando três dimensões: "disponibilização da informação", "personalização" e "iniciativa". Os autores destacam aspetos como a personalização da informação, a possibilidade de  Construir, de forma criativa e com recurso a tecnologias móveis emergentes, uma ferramenta útil para a cidade de Viseu;…”

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Viseu Mobile: A location based Augmented Reality tour guide for mobile devices

Martins¹,

Malta²,

Costa³

2015

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ResumoO presente artigo apresenta o projeto "Viseu na Palma da Mão", que se consubstancia no desenvolvimento de um guia turístico pessoal, sem fins comerciais, baseado na tecnologia da Realidade Aumentada para dispositivos móveis. Esta aplicação procura potenciar e enriquecer a experiência turística dos visitantes da cidade de Viseu. Apresenta-se uma reflexão sobre a Realidade Aumentada e as suas potencialidades e aplicações, com especial destaque para o turismo. A crescente possibilidade de aceder à Internet em qualquer momento e em qualquer lugar, aliada à oferta de novos equipamentos móveis, permite o desenvolvimento de aplicações específicas que procuram responder às crescentes exigências dos turistas. É nesta premissa que emerge a aplicação Viseu Mobile, procurando maximizar a constante utilização dos dispositivos móveis, tornando-os mecanismos de informação turística pessoal, com recurso à informação baseada em contexto. São, igualmente, explicitadas as diferentes etapas de desenvolvimento e as diferentes funcionalidades da aplicação.Palavras-chave: aplicação; dispositivos móveis; guia turístico; realidade aumentada; Viseu. AbstractThis article reports on the project "Viseu na Palma da Mão", which is based on a Augmented Reality app for mobile devices, whose main purpose is to maximise the tourists' experience when visiting the town of Viseu. The paper starts by presenting a reflection on Augmented Reality and its potential and applications, with a special emphasis on the tourism industry. The increasing possibility to access the Internet anytime, anywhere, together with the unprecedented growth of mobile device penetration has boosted the development of specific applications that seek to respond to the increasing demands of tourists. It is on this premise that the app Viseu Mobile emerges, seeking to enhance the constant use of mobile devices, and making them act as a personal tour guide, based on location based information. The different stages of development and different features of the application are also explained.

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“…The famous Cyberguide was the first mobile tour guide with context-awareness [11]. With time to develop, the second generation of mobile tour guides has been characterized with features of personalization, recommendation, context-awareness, collaborative usage, and social integration [12]. Schwinger et al also provided a comprehensive survey and an evaluation framework to examine many mobile tour guides based on context awareness [13].…”

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confidence: 99%