Recommendation and planning through mobile devices in tourism context

• Author(s): Anacleto, Ricardo ; Figueiredo, Lino ; Luz, Nuno ; Almeida, Ana ; Novais, Paulo
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15114
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Mobile Recommendation System; Sight Information Provider; Context-Aware; Client-Server Application
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

In this paper we present a mobile recommendation and planning system, named PSiS Mobile. It is designed to provide effective support during a tourist visit through context-aware information and recommendations about points of interest, exploiting tourist preferences and context. Designing a tool like this brings several challenges that must be addressed. We discuss how these challenges have been overcame, present the overall system architecture, since this mobile application extends the PSiS project website, and the mobile application architecture.