Cheverst, Keith and Davies, Nigel and Mitchell, Keith and Friday, Adrian (2000) Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project. In: The 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2000), 2000-08-062000-08-11, Boston, US.
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Abstract
The GUIDE system has been developed to provide city visitors with a hand-held context-aware tourist guide. The system has been successfully deployed in a major tourist destination and is currently at the stage where it is publicly available to visitors who wish to explore the city. Reaching this stage has been the culmination of a number of distinct research efforts. In more detail, the development of GUIDE has involved: capturing a real set of application requirements, investigating the properties of a cell-based wireless communications technology in a built-up environment and deploying a network based on this technology around the city, designing and populating an information model to represent attractions and key buildings within the city, prototyping the development of a distributed application running across portable GUIDE units and stationary cell-servers and, finally, evaluating the entire system during an extensive field-trial study. This paper reports on our results in each of these areas. We believe that through our work on the GUIDE project we have produced a blueprint for the development of interactive context- aware systems that should be of real value to those in the community who wish to develop such systems in a practical environment.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | The 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2000) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cs_eprint_id ; 314 cs_uid ; 1 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications |
| ID Code: | 11853 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_comp |
| Deposited On: | 28 May 2008 23:02 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2012 01:26 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/11853 |
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