An innovative mobile electronic tourist guide application

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-118

  Kenteris, Michael ^a   Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Economou, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electronic tourist guide; J2ME; Mobile devices; Push model; Tourist application; Usability tests; Web; XML

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DECODING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PORT TERMINALS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; XML;

ELECTRONIC TOURIST GUIDE; J2ME; PUSH MODEL; TOURIST APPLICATION; USABILITY TESTS; WEB;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 58149522486     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-007-0191-y     Document Type: Article

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