Exploiting Social Context Information in Context-Aware Mobile Tourism Guides

The social dimension of tourism is very important, because people often enjoy sightseeing in groups and involving their social network’s members in some tourist activities, such as sharing photos or buying a souvenir. Thus social context information can be very relevant for context-aware mobile tourism guides, i.e. applications assisting tourists on the move, exploiting available knowledge about the situation of the tourists themselves. In this paper we share our views on the topics of formal representation, interpretation and exploitation of social context information in these applications.