Mobile application to provide personalized sightseeing tours

• Autor(a) principal: Anacleto, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Figueiredo, Lino, Almeida, Ana, Novais, Paulo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/32066
• topic: Mobile applications; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Decision support; Recommendation system; Planning system; Sight information provider; Context-aware; Android; Keywords; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática; Science & Technology

Tourist recommendation systems have been growing over the last few years, mainly because of the use of mobile devices to obtain user context. This work discusses some of the most relevant systems on the field and presents PSiS Mobile, which is a mobile recommendation and planning application designed to support a tourist during his vacations. It provides recommendations about points of interest to visit based on tourist preferences and on user and sight context. Also, it suggests a visit planning which can be dynamically adapted based on current user and sight context. This tool works also like a journey dairy since it records the tourist moves and tasks to help him remember how the trip was like. To conclude, some field experiences will be presented.