Mobile tourist guides have attracted considerable research interest during the past decade,
resulting in numerous standalone and web-based mobile applications. Particular emphasis …

The study of intelligent user interfaces and user modeling and adaptation is well suited for
augmenting educational visits to museums. We have defined a novel integrated framework …

Augmented Reality is a recent impressive technology applied in many areas. However, in
tourism and especially in museums, where visual contact with exhibitions is fundamental …

48 May 2002/Vol. 45, No. 5 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM by such behavior when
exploring an unknown city. The requirement for presenting information tailored to both the …

Ubiquitous computing is a challenging area that allows us to further our understanding and
techniques of context-aware and adaptive systems. Among the challenges is the general …

A user-centred design approach involves end-users from the very beginning. Considering
users at the early stages compels designers to think in terms of utility and usability and helps …

In this article, we report software architectures for context awareness in mobile computing
environments, sensor centric systems and discuss context modeling issues. Defining an …

This paper explores the design issues of situated play within a museum through the study of
a museum guide prototype that integrates a tangible interface, audio display, and adaptive …

This paper introduces Gulliver's Genie a context-aware tourist guide that assists roaming
tourists. The approach adopted within this system is the deployment of intelligent agents …

Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary
development project that explores the use of novel technologies for physical museum visits …