Online Note Sharing in a Mobile Self-Guided Tour System

This paper presents a self-guided tour system that allows a visitor to instantly share his/her notes or remarks about exhibits with others through the Internet. The note/remark not only can be stored with the exhibit information to be accessed by other visitors, but also can be broadcasted through microblogging in a timely manner. This provides an interaction mechanism for the visitor to feedback his/her remark on a certain exhibit to the administration and to share it with friends instantly. A prototype system for such an environment was realized through the RFID and mobile technologies. The architecture and the development of the prototype system are illustrated in this paper.