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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian, Efstratiou, Christos (2000) Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide. In: CHI '00 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. . pp. 17-24. ISBN 1-58113-216-6. (doi:10.1145/332040.332047) (KAR id:38650)

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the limitations of the traditional information and navigation tools available to city visitors. For example, group-based tours are inherently inflexible with fixed starting times and fixed durations and (like most guidebooks) are constrained by the need to satisfy the interests of the majority rather than the specific interests of individuals. Following a period of requirements capture, involving experts in the field of tourism, we developed and installed a system for use by visitors to Lancaster. The system combines mobile computing technologies with a wireless infrastructure to present city visitors with information tailored to both their personal and environmental contexts. In this paper we present an evaluation of GUIDE, focusing on the quality of the visitor's experience when using the system.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1145/332040.332047
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2014 12:21 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38650 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Efstratiou, Christos.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-9579
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