Mobile Positioning Technologies allow the detection of the position of the mobile device. The term mobile positioning is sometimes used interchangeably with the term mobile location. However, mobile location refers to the location estimate derived from the mobile positioning operation. There are various means of mobile positioning, which can be divided into two major categories - network based and handset based positioning. The purpose of positioning the mobile is to provide location-based services (LBS), including wireless emergency services.
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Mobile Tourist Applications: Design Criteria, Status, and Trends
Michael Kenteris (University of the Aegean, Greece), Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece), and Daphne Economou (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-655-1.ch002
Abstract
Mobile guides have been in the spotlight for the past decade or so and are becoming increasingly available in various forms to tourists visiting places. The majority of these guides are to be used via a network connection and some as proprietary standalone mobile applications installed on-device. Some are solely navigational assistants used in large cities for exploratory services and others are used indoors as museum guides. This research chapter studies three main categories of mobile applications, namely, mobile guides, web-to-mobile, and mobile phone navigational assistants, using a detailed set of evaluation criteria to extract design principles that can be used by application designers and developers.