Development and evaluation of a context-driven, mobile tourist guide

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 378-399

  Kramer, Ronny ^a   Modsching, Marko ^a   Hagen, Klaus ten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Information systems; Mobile communication systems; Tourism management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893514923     PISSN: 17427371     EISSN: 1742738X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17427370710863121     Document Type: Article

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