• DocumentCode
    3162082
  • Title

    Guiding tourists using Nintendo DS Game console

  • Author

    Shirali-Shahrezu, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-22 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    3229
  • Lastpage
    3232
  • Abstract
    Tourism industry is an important and money-making profession in many countries. The appropriate and quick submission of primary information such as historical sites to the tourists is very effective in attracting them. Of course the tourism tools have undergone some changes and variations in accordance with technology advances and development of peoplepsilas behavior in recent years. So tourism services should be developed and improved in parallel these changes in order to be successful in attraction of tourists. Considering the above mentioned facts, this paper proposes a system for providing city maps for tourists on their Nintedo DS game console. Because the Nintendo DS is the most popular and best selling handheld game console, this method can cover a wide range of users. Also this method can encourage the children to enjoy their trip and attract them to go to journey with their parents.
  • Keywords
    travel industry; Nintendo DS game console; handheld game console; money-making profession; tourism industry; tourism services; tourism tools; tourist guiding; Application software; Cities and towns; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer industry; Computer science; Mobile agents; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Toy industry; City Map; Game Consoles; Nintendo DS; Tourist Guidance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE Annual Conference, 2008
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-907764-30-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-4-907764-29-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SICE.2008.4655221
  • Filename
    4655221