Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Context-Awareness on Mobile Devices - the Hydrogen Approach
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9 - Volume 9
MobiDENK-Mobile Multimedia in Monument Conservation
IEEE MultiMedia
Ubiquitous Access to Cultural Tourism Portals
DEXA '04 Proceedings of the Database and Expert Systems Applications, 15th International Workshop
Personal Service Areas for Mobile Web Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
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Context-aware mobile systems aim at delivering information and services tailored to the current user’s situation [1], [10]. One major application area of these systems is the tourism domain, assisting tourists especially during their vacation through location-based services (LBS) [4], [7]. Consequently a proliferation of approaches [2], [5], [8], [9], [12], [15], [17], [18] can be observed, whereby an in-depth study of related work has shown that some of these existing mobile tourism information systems exhibit few limitations [3], [19]: First, existing approaches often use proprietary interfaces to other systems (e.g. a Geographic Information System – GIS), and employ their own data repositories, thus falling short in portability and having to deal with time consuming content maintenance. Second, often thick clients are used that may lack out-of-the-box-usage. Third, existing solutions are sometimes inflexible concerning configuration capabilities of the system. To deal with those deficiencies, we present a lightweight framework for LBS that can be used for various application domains. This framework builds on existing GIS standards, incorporates already available Web content, can be employed out-of-the-box, and is configurable by using a Web-based interface. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated by means of a prototype of a mobile tourist guide.