Title :
Guiding tourists using Nintendo DS Game console
Author :
Shirali-Shahrezu, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran
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;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference, 2008
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-4-907764-30-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-907764-29-6
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2008.4655221