Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide

  • Authors:

  • Gregory D. Abowd;Christopher G. Atkeson;Jason Hong;Sue Long;Rob Kooper;Mike Pinkerton

  • Affiliations:

  • Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA and Wink Communications, Alameda, CA;Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Graphics, Visualization and Usability Centre, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Future computing environments will free the user from the constraints of the desktop. Applications for a mobile environment should take advantage of contextual information, such as position, to offer greater services to the user. In this paper, we present the Cyberguide project, in which we are building prototypes of a mobile context-aware tour guide. Knowledge of the user's current location, as well as a history of past locations, are used to provide more of the kind of services that we come to expect from a real tour guide. We describe the architecture and features of a variety of Cyberguide prototypes developed for indoor and outdoor use on a number of different hand-held platforms. We also discuss the general research issues that have emerged in our context-aware applications development in a mobile environment.