Mobile application to provide personalized sightseeing tours

• Main Author: Anacleto, Ricardo
• Publication Date: 2013
• Other Authors: Figueiredo, Lino, Almeida, Ana, Novais, Paulo
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4002
• topic: Mobile applications; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Recommendation system; Sight information provider; Context-aware

Tourist recommendation systems have been growing over the last years, mainly because of the use of mobile devices to get user context. This work discuss some of the most relevant systems on the field and presents PSiS Mobile, which is a mobile recommendation and planning application designed to support a tourist during his vacations. It provides recommendations about points of interest to visit based on tourist preferences and on user and sight context. Also, it suggests a visit planning which can be dynamically adapted based on current user and sight context. This tool works like a journey dairy since it records the tourist moves and tasks to help him remember how the trip was like. To conclude, some field experiences will be presented.