The influence of a location-aware mobile guide on museum visitors' behavior

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 443-460

  Lanir, Joel ^a   Kuflik, Tsvi ^a   Dim, Eyal ^a   Wecker, Alan J ^a   Stock, Oliviero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Group behavior; Mobile museum guide; Museum visit behavior

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES;

CONTEXT AWARE ,; DECOUPLING EFFECTS; FIELD STUDIES; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LOCATION-AWARE; MOBILE MULTIMEDIA; MUSEUM GUIDE; MUSEUM VISITOR;

MUSEUMS;

EID: 84885895538     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwt002     Document Type: Article

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