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Mobile Tourist Applications: Design Criteria, Status, and Trends

Mobile Tourist Applications: Design Criteria, Status, and Trends
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Author(s): Michael Kenteris (University of the Aegean, Greece), Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece)and Daphne Economou (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design, Implementation, and Emergent Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Paulo Alencar (University of Waterloo, Canada)and Donald Cowan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-655-1.ch002

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Abstract

Mobile guides have been in the spotlight for the past decade or so and are becoming increasingly available in various forms to tourists visiting places. The majority of these guides are to be used via a network connection and some as proprietary standalone mobile applications installed on-device. Some are solely navigational assistants used in large cities for exploratory services and others are used indoors as museum guides. This research chapter studies three main categories of mobile applications, namely, mobile guides, web-to-mobile, and mobile phone navigational assistants, using a detailed set of evaluation criteria to extract design principles that can be used by application designers and developers.

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