Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide

Cheverst, Keith; Davies, Nigel; Mitchell, Keith; Friday, Adrian; Efstratiou, Christos

doi:10.1145/332040.332047

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“…In both cases, the methodology was, like ours, based on a combination of interviews, observation, and device activity log analysis. A University of Salford team evaluated the design of a tablet computer guidebook prototype at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester [7], and a Lancaster University team evaluated the design of another tablet computer guidebook prototype in historic Lancaster [6].…”

Section: Electronic Guidebook Studiesmentioning

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The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks

Woodruff

Szymanski

Aoki

et al. 2001

Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing

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Abstract. We describe an electronic guidebook prototype and report on a study of its use in a historic house. Visitors were given a choice of information delivery modes, and generally preferred audio played through speakers. In this delivery mode, visitors assigned the electronic guidebook a conversational role, e.g., it was granted turns in conversation, it introduced topics of conversation, and visitors responded to it verbally. We illustrate the integration of the guidebook into natural conversation by showing that discourse with the electronic guidebook followed the conversational structure of storytelling. We also demonstrate that visitors coordinated object choice and physical positioning to ensure that the electronic guidebooks played a role in their conversations. Because the visitors integrated the electronic guidebooks in their existing conversations with their companions, they achieved social interactions with each other that were more fulfilling than those that occur with other presentation methods such as traditional headphone audio tours.

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Section: Electronic Guidebook Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks

Woodruff

Szymanski

Aoki

et al. 2001

Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing

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“…The dynamic, context-aware organization of a tour was initially proposed in the GUIDE system to support users in the real-time organization of their visit to the Lancaster town [12]. However, the architecture of such system is based on the exploitation of specialized hardware, physically located in the place to be visited, and on the use of special handset devices.…”

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Ubiquitous User Assistance in a Tourist Information Server

Ardissono

Goy

Petrone

et al. 2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper discusses the provision of ubiquitous services for desktop and handheld interfaces. The focus of the paper is on the interactive agenda offered by INTRIGUE, a tourist information server which assists the user in the organization of a tour by providing personalized recommendations of tourist attractions and helping the user to schedule her itinerary. The interactive agenda can be accessed both remotely, by interacting with the central server, and locally to the user's device. BackgroundWith the current expansion of wireless communications, several Web-based services have been extended to the mobile phone market, with special attention to contextawareness and to the adaptation of the user interface to the peculiarities of the various handset devices. However, only very basic, "real-time" services, such as the consultation of stock quotes, are accessed by mobile phone users, because wireless connections are extremely expensive. In contrast, the applications that can be executed locally to the device, such as music and games, are appreciated by a broader customer base. Although the situation might change in the future, at the current stage applications should rely on wireless network connections for the tasks that really need a remote connection [1].In our recent research, we have addressed the design of system architectures for the development of services accessible both from desktop environments and handset devices, via remote connections to central servers, or local execution of tasks within the devices themselves. In these applications, persistent interaction contexts have to be managed to support the synchronization of the user's activities when switching from one device to the other [2]. We experimented our ideas with INTRIGUE (INteractive TouRist Information GUidE), a prototype information service presenting tourist information on Web browsers and WAP phones. This paper describes INTRIGUE's interactive agenda, which supports the tour scheduling by generating optimized itineraries on the basis of the user's temporal constraints, the attractions' opening times and their location. In this application, the persistent interaction context is represented by the user's itinerary, which can be consulted and modified during different sessions. The interactive agenda is downloadable and can run both in remote modality, by interacting with £ This paper has been published in LNCS n. 2347, Springer Verlag.

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“…The first efforts to introduce context-awareness have been related to the localization of users [4]. Localization is still one of the main building blocks of context-aware systems, although recently the concept of context-awareness has been enriched to take into account more general environmental parameters, where the meaning of the term "environmental" is as broad as possible.…”

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A context-aware architecture for QoS and transcoding management of multimedia streams in smart homes

Bolla

Repetto

Zutter

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation

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Current trends in smart homes suggest that several multimedia services will soon converge towards common standards and platforms. However this rapid evolution gives rise to several issues related to the management of a large number of multimedia streams in the home communication infrastructure. An issue of particular relevance is how a context acquisition system can be used to support the management of such a large number of streams with respect to the Quality of Service (QoS), to their adaptation to the available bandwidth or to the capacity of the involved devices, and to their migration and adaptation driven by the users' needs that are implicitly or explicitly notified to the system. Under this scenario this paper describes the experience of the INTERMEDIA project in the exploitation of context information to support QoS, migration, and adaptation of multimedia streams.

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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide

Cited by 637 publications

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The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks

The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks

Ubiquitous User Assistance in a Tourist Information Server

A context-aware architecture for QoS and transcoding management of multimedia streams in smart homes

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