Title :
Mobile application for guiding tourist activities: tourist assistant - TAIS
Author :
Smirnov, Alexander ; Kashevnik, Alexey ; Shilov, Nikolay ; Teslya, Nikolay ; Shabaev, Anton
Author_Institution :
SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract :
The paper presents category classification of mobile travel applications accessible at the moment for tourists in application stores for most popular mobile operation systems (Android and iOS). The most interesting category is "Travel Guides" that combines "Information Resources" and "Location-Based Services" category. Authors propose application "Tourist assistant - TAIS" that is related to "Travel Guides" category and recommends the tourist attractions around. Information about attractions is extracted from different internet sources.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); Internet; classification; iOS (operating system); information retrieval; mobile computing; travel industry; Android; Internet sources; TAIS; application stores; attraction information extraction; category classification; iOS; information resources; location-based services; mobile application; mobile operation systems; mobile travel applications; tourist activities; tourist assistant; tourist attractions; travel guides; Context; Databases; Estimation; Information services; Internet; Mobile communication; Smart phones;
Conference_Titel :
Open Innovations Association (FRUCT16), 2014 16th Conference of
Conference_Location :
Oulu
DOI :
10.1109/FRUCT.2014.7000931
