Abstract Recommender Systems (RSs) have been extensively utilized as a means of
reducing the information overload and offering travel recommendations to tourists. The …

Portable devices are increasingly employed in a wide range of mobile guidance
applications. Typical examples are guides in urban areas, museum guides, and exhibition …

The incidental acquisition of spatial orientation knowledge when using a pedestrian
navigation assistance system for wayfinding was compared to incidental learning during …

Technology can play a crucial role in supporting museum visitors and enhancing their
overall museum visit experiences. Visitors coming to a museum do not want to be …

Environmental education and computers? That was traditionally seen as an antagonism. But
environmental educators who compete for attention and face new challenges in an age of …

In this paper, we describe the results of an experimental study whose objective was
twofold:(1) comparing three navigation aids that help users perform wayfinding tasks in …

This paper presents a context-aware mobile recommender system, codenamed Magitti.
Magitti is unique in that it infers user activity from context and patterns of user behavior and …

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 …

With the gradual maturating of ubiquitous computing and the rapid advances in mobile
devices and wireless communication, indoor Location Based Services have gained …

Mobile tourist guides have been in the spot light for the past decade and are becoming
increasingly available in various forms to tourists visiting places. The majority of these …