User Acceptance of Digital Tourist Guides Lessons Learnt from Two Field Studies

Evjemo, Bente; Akselsen, Sigmund; Schürmann, Anders

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_82

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“…They found that most couples used shared audio as a conversational resource. Evjemo et al [12] also report that nearly 40% of their study participants explicitly asked for the opportunity to share audio content in a museum and this included nearly 90% of those who usually had company when visiting museums. Most of our participants reported that they typically went travelling with friends or family.…”

Section: Sharing Audio Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…30 sec) [12]. In contrast, audio from our DL books is typically longer and relies on text-to-speech.…”

Section: Directions and Object Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tourist audio guides typically provide relatively short snippets of pre-recorded audio ( [12] describes 3min as a particularly long recording). An exception was AccesSights [23] with text-tospeech for guiding visually impaired users.…”

Section: Tourism System Versus Digital Librarymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hinze

Bainbridge

2013

Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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This paper explores the role of audio as a means to access books in a digital library while being at the location referred to in the books. The books are sourced from the digital library and can either be accompanied by pre-recorded audio or synthesized using text-to-speech. The paper details the functional requirements, design and implementation of Tipple. The concept was extensively tested in three field studies.

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Section: Sharing Audio Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…30 sec) [12]. In contrast, audio from our DL books is typically longer and relies on text-to-speech.…”

Section: Directions and Object Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hinze

Bainbridge

2013

Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…Those who cannot afford a guide, or those who want to explore on their own can make use of guide books, such as provided by the companies: "Lonely Planet" and "Rough Guides". The selfmade tourist or the active tourist finds satisfaction in the process of composing his/her own program for the day [5]. Guide books include information about hotels, restaurants, travel, city life (e.g.…”

Section: Domain: Tourist Guides and Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…DBpedia mobile [4]. However, for enriched storytelling, one needs fast searching mechanism for selecting information and presentation format relevant to the user, based on his/her preferences and the current context [5]. An example is Google Goggles for searching the web, based on pictures from a unified picture library [10], but this application mainly provides names of places of interest, not background information.…”

Section: Domain: Tourist Guides and Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Cultural Heritage Guide: Location-Aware Semantic Search

Aart¹,

Wielinga

Hage³

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we explore the use of location aware mobile devices for searching and browsing a large number of general and cultural heritage information repositories. Based on GPS positioning we can determine a user's location and context, composed of physical nearby locations, historic events that have taken place there, artworks that were created at or inspired by those locations and artists that have lived or worked there. Based on a geolocation, the user has three levels of refinement: pointing to a specific heading and selection and facets and subfacets of cultural heritage objects. In our approach two types of knowledge are combined: general knowledge about geolocations and points of interest and specialized knowledge about a particular domain, i.e. cultural heritage. We use a number of Linked Open Data sources and a number of general sources from the cultural heritage domain (including Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names) as well as data from several Dutch cultural institutions. We show three concrete scenarios where a tourist accesses localized information on his iPhone about the current environment, events, artworks or persons, which are enriched by Linked Open Data sources. We show that Linked Open Data sources in isolation are currently too limited to provide interesting semantic information but combined with each other and with a number of other sources a really informative location-based service can be created.

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RFID-Based Action Tracking for Measuring the Impact of Cultural Events on Tourism

Zeni

Kiyavitskaya

Barbera

et al. 2009

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2009

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Organization of cultural events in a tourist destination often demands large investments. For this reason, authorities, tourism managers and operators need data to support their decisions, define their strategies and, in general terms, they are interested in measuring the economic impact of such events on tourism. In this paper, we propose a lightweight framework that can be applied to gather data on the places tourists visit during an event. The framework is based on an action tracking system that exploits RFID technologies on an existing city card circuit. The main choices necessary to design a system that allows to satisfy technical, organizational and budget constraints are described referring to its application to two important recent festivals -Trento FilmFestival and the Festival of Economicscharacterized by very different content, history, and targets.

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User Acceptance of Digital Tourist Guides Lessons Learnt from Two Field Studies

Cited by 12 publications

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Mobile Cultural Heritage Guide: Location-Aware Semantic Search

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