Title :
A SOA-Based Mobile Guide to Augment Tourists´ Experiences with User-Generated Content and Third-Party Services
Author :
Paganelli, Federica ; Parlanti, David ; Francini, Niccoló ; Giuli, Dino
Author_Institution :
Nat. Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommun., Florence
Abstract :
Several mobile guides exist providing tourists with location-based content delivery. This paper presents a novel mobile application, named InfoTour, aiming at enriching touristspsila experiences by supporting social interactions among tourists and by enabling seamless interaction with third-party service and data providers. The proposed system is based on service oriented architecture principles, and we describe here the main issues related to the system prototype design and development.
Keywords :
Web services; mobile computing; travel industry; InfoTour; SOA-based mobile guide; location-based content delivery; service oriented architecture; social interactions; third-party services; tourist experience; user-generated content; Art; Context-aware services; Cultural differences; Navigation; Prototypes; Service oriented architecture; Social factors; User-generated content; Web and internet services; Web services; Service Oriented Architecture; Services Integration; Tourism; Web Services;
Conference_Titel :
Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2009. ICIW '09. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice/Mestre
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3851-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3613-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIW.2009.71
