Experiences of developing and deploying a context-aware tourist guide: the GUIDE project

  • Authors:

  • Keith Cheverst;Nigel Davies;Keith Mitchell;Adrian Friday

  • Affiliations:

  • Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA14YR, U.K.;Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA14YR, U.K.;Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA14YR, U.K.;Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA14YR, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The GUIDE system has been developed to provide city visitors with a hand-held context-aware tourist guide. The system has been successfully deployed in a major tourist destination and is currently at the stage where it is publicly available to visitors who wish to explore the city. Reaching this stage has been the culmination of a number of distinct research efforts. In more detail, the development of GUIDE has involved: capturing a real set of application requirements, investigating the properties of a cell-based wireless communications technology in a built-up environment and deploying a network based on this technology around the city, designing and populating an information model to represent attractions and key buildings within the city, prototyping the development of a distributed application running across portable GUIDE units and stationary cell-servers and finally, evaluating the entire system during an extensive field-trial study. This paper reports on our results in each of these areas. We believe that through our work on the GUIDE project we have produced a blueprint for the development of interactive context-aware systems that should be of real value to those in the community who wish to develop such systems in a practical environment.