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Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences. / Cheverst, Keith; Davies, Nigel; Mitchell, Keith et al.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2000. p. 17-24 (CHI '00).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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T1 - Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences
AU - Cheverst, Keith
AU - Davies, Nigel
AU - Mitchell, Keith
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Efstratiou, Christos
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1145/332040.332047
DO - 10.1145/332040.332047
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 1-58113-216-6
T3 - CHI '00
SP - 17
EP - 24
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, USA
ER -