Covering the semantic space of tourism: an approach based on modularized ontologies
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies
A software product line for the mobile and context-aware applications domain
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Mytilene E-guide: a multiplatform mobile application tourist guide exemplar
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Review: Mobile guides: Taxonomy of architectures, context awareness, technologies and applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
New approaches in context modelling for tourism applications
UCAmI'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence
Tourism Mobile Application Usability: The Case of iTicino
International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications
MobiLine: A Nested Software Product Line for the domain of mobile and context-aware applications
Science of Computer Programming
Smart environment interaction: A user assessment of embedded agents
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Intelligent agents in Ambient Intelligence and smart environments
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The penetration of high-end mobile devices equipped with GPS and enhanced with multimedia features together with decreasing mobile data prices have resulted in larger usage of mobile services. One of the application domains particularly well-suited for mobile services is tourism, not least since tourists can be assisted especially during the vacation itself. Currently, there is a proliferation of such mobile tourist guides, proposing an unmanageable number of diverse functionalities. To counteract this situation, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, an evaluation framework is proposed, comprising both, a classification of mobile tourist services and a categorization of their delivery aspects in terms of several orthogonal dimensions. Second, on basis of this framework, four representative mobile tourist guides are evaluated, thereby demonstrating the frameworks' applicability. Third, several lessons learned are discussed, thereby shedding light on the current state of effort in the area of mobile tourist