Contact Point:

Dipl.-Inform. Jochen Meyer ( ), tel. +49 441 9722-185

OFFIS, Germany
   

Technical Contact Point:

Dipl.-Inform. Ansgar Scherp ( )
   

Type of Software:

STABLE PROTOTYPE 
   

Descriptive Keywords:

Travel and tourism, multimedia presentation, generation, personalized multimedia, mobile multimedia
  

Potential Use and Applications:

Development of arbitrary personalized mobile multimedia tourist guides.
  

General Description:

Mobile applications such as mobile tourist guides that provide tourists with location-based information today mostly aim to adapt the multimedia content to the different end user devices. More and more, these applications also exploit positioning information like GPS to guide the user on the trip. What is still lacking, however, is a personalization of the content to the interests and preferences of the individual tourist and the characteristics of the used end device. However, such a personalization increases the application’s complexity since every individual alternative have to be considered and implemented. To provide substantial support for the development of personalized (mobile) multimedia applications, we developed a domain independent software framework for an efficient and cost-effective development of personalized mobile multimedia applications. We illustrate the framework in the specific domain of personalized mobile tourist information.
  

Required User Skills:

Being familiar with using a PDA.
  

Pre-Requisites for Installation (hardware and software)

Hardware: Pocket PC

Software: Jeode Java Runtime Environment
  

Conditions of Use:

Contact the authors.
  

Additional Information:

Scherp A. and Boll S. 2004. Generic support for personalized mobile multimedia tourist applications. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. New York (USA), 10-16 October 2004. New York: ACM Press. 178-179.