Design of trustworthy smartphone-based multimedia services in cultural environments

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Koukopoulos;Georgios Styliaras

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece 30100;Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece 30100

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Commerce Research
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Smartphone is a dynamic new media that faces high popularity due to its versatile services and the friendliness of its usage. It can be used in many activities of everyday life from e-commerce to e-tourism. In this work, we study smartphone's secure usability in cultural heritage sites and environments. Our goal is to make a first attempt towards a trustworthy commercial multimedia guiding system targeting cultural sites that will be executed in a set of smartphones. More specifically, we are interested in how the needs of curators and visitors, experts or not, of a cultural heritage site can be facilitated by the provided multimedia guiding services of smartphones employing trustworthy implementations of smartphone services that are controlled by a central server. Furthermore, we make an attempt to propose a simple business model for the commercial exploitation of such services.