Performance Evaluation of a Touring System

In the previous work, we proposed a new concept of ´universal multimedia access´ to narrow the digital divide by providing appropriate multimedia expressions according to users´ (mental and physical) abilities, computer facilities, and network environments. In our approach, multimedia contents are presented to support functions such as user interface switching, media switching and QoS switching. In order to evaluate our approach for user interface switching, we have constructed some contents and introduce 28 spots in 6 prefectures of Japan providing 9 types of user interfaces. In this paper, we present the performance evaluation of the contents for a touring system.