Secure Smartphone-Based Multimedia Guiding Services in Cultural Environments

Smartphone is a dynamic new media that faces high popularity due to its versatile services and the friendliness of its usage. It can be used in many activities of everyday life from e-shopping to e-tourism. In this work, we study smartphone´s secure usability in cultural heritage sites and environments. We are mainly interested in how the needs of curators and visitors, experts or not, of a cultural heritage site can be facilitated by the provided services of smartphones employing trustworthy implementations of smart phone services that are controlled by a central server. Our goal is to make a first attempt towards a complete information system targeting cultural sites that will be executed in a set of smartphones.