Notice of RetractionInteractive guiding systems with social network functionalities

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A tour guiding system provides additional assistant for visitors while they are in visiting, and lets the visiting activity smoother and more benefit. A tour guiding was manual-based service initially, and is gradually transforming to electronic facilities with the advances in technology. At this era of rapid development of multimedia technology, large amounts of multimedia technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and interactive video, etc., indeed enrich visiting activity; also give visitors a richer enjoyment. Currently most of the guiding systems focus on interaction between exhibition items and visitors, and lack on the interaction among visitors and between authors with visitors. Gradually, people interact with each other over Internet even more frequently than in real world. Taking the Facebook as an example, its registered users are more than 600 millions. Accordingly, a guiding system which emphasizes on interaction between visitors with the introduction of social services on Facebook is proposed in this paper. So that visiting in the real world becomes more interesting and informative through this service. In addition, good exhibits will be easier to propagate to public.