Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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As the number of elderly and handicapped people in our society increases more and more it is important to take into account the special needs of these user groups. Most tasks of daily life can be achieved through learning recurring procedures. But new and unknown situations reveal problems most people with bodily limitations can not handle. This keeps most of these people from participating in holiday, leisure time and educational activities. This paper proposes a handheld/server based assistance system, which offers users with special needs access to recreational activities. Therefore it takes account of the needs of the user by including a scalable and easy to use user interface, a routing algorithm that evaluates barriers and the possibility to add medical observation as well as an emergency system.