Assisting tourists on the move - An evaluation of mobile tourist guides

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2008, Creativity and Convergence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 171-180

  Grün, Christoph ^a   Werthner, Hannes ^a   Pröll, Birgit ^b   Retschitzegger, Werner ^b   Schwinger, Wieland ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CURRENT STATE; DIVERSE FUNCTIONALITIES; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LESSONS LEARNED; MOBILE BUSINESS; MOBILE DATA; MOBILE SERVICES; MULTIMEDIA FEATURES; SHEDDING LIGHT;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 52149121364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMB.2008.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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