A location aware mobile tourist guide selecting and interpreting sights and services by context matching

Author

ten Hagen, Klaus ; Modsching, Marko ; Kramer, Ronny

Author_Institution

Univ. of Appl. Sci., Germany

fYear

2005

fDate

17-21 July 2005

Firstpage

293

Lastpage

301

Abstract

Most tourists exploring a destination either join a guided tour or walk on their own using maps. Neither are their individual preferences nor the actual situation considered. These tours are strongly inflexible. The ideal is an intelligent guide taking care of the whole tour organisation and execution in time. This is the main objective of the dynamic tour guide (DTG). The DTG is a mobile agent that selects attractions, plans an individual tour, provides navigational guidance and offers location based interpretation. This kind of ambient intelligence is based on the analysis of all available context information to support the tourist in any possible way with the help of a mobile device.

Keywords

mobile agents; mobile computing; semantic Web; telecommunication services; travel industry; DTG; ambient intelligence; context information matching; dynamic tour guide; location based interpretation; mobile agent; tourist guide; Ambient intelligence; Cities and towns; Context awareness; Context-aware services; Information analysis; Legged locomotion; Mobile agents; Navigation; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, 2005. MobiQuitous 2005. The Second Annual International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2375-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIQUITOUS.2005.4

Filename

1541009