KOTOHIRAGU NAVIGATOR: an open experiment of location-aware service for popular mobile phones

Authors:
Hiroyuki Tarumi;Yuko Tsurumi;Kazuya Matsubara;Yusuke Hayashi;Yuki Mizukubo;Makoto Yoshida;Fusako Kusunoki
Affiliations:
Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan;Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
LoCA'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Location- and Context-Awareness
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We have developed a location-aware sightseeing support system for visitors to KOTOHIRAGU Shrine, using only popular mobile phones employing the gpsOne system. Its design is not a map-based navigation system, but a shared virtual world system like multi-player online role-playing games. We conducted an experiment recruiting 29 subjects from real tourists visiting the shrine, who had their own compatible GPS-phones. From the survey, we have found that location-aware sightseeing support system using mobile phones can be accepted by young people, but the generation gap is wider than expected.