Smart space-based intelligent mobile tourist guide: Service-based implementation

Abstract

The paper presents an intelligent mobile tourist guide architecture that allows tourists to get information about attractions around the current geographic location based on tourist context and estimations of other tourists. Information about attractions (images and description blocks) is extracted from different internet services (like Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikitravel, Panoramio, Flickr) “on the fly” that allows to use mobile tourist guide in any region of the world and get actual at the moment information. The mobile tourist guide provides information about public transport and car sharing possibilities for the tourist with drivers nearby for comfortable reaching preferred attractions. It is based on the smart space technology that provides possibilities of personal devices and different services seamless integration. The paper also discusses services interaction in smart space that allows to implement majority of mobile tourist guide tasks in computational power devices and use personal mobile devices only for results visualization.