Development and evaluation of mobile tour guide using wearable and hand-held devices

Abstract

With the popularization of wearable devices, people who are using multiple mobile devices are increasing; a tourist uses a hand-held device, a wearable device, or both to obtain tour information. However, most mobile tour guides provide tour information with little consideration of their hand-held and wearable characteristics. In addition, tour guides that run on multiple mobile devices do not share their touring context. Therefore, tourists have to input their intention separately on each device. To alleviate these problems, we propose a mobile tour guide system that shares the touring context between hand-held and wearable devices, and presents tour information based on the capabilities and usage pattern of the devices. The system guides tourists by compensating the weaknesses of the devices, and also minimizes user interaction between the system and tourists.