In this paper we propose a framework for the support of mobile application with Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, such as voice or video, capable of supporting distributed, migration-capable, QoS-enabled applications on top of the Android Operating system.

The aim of this study is to identify the key factors as antecedents of visitor satisfaction for the design of a mobile app for museums. To our aim we use the Kano model that allows to categorize service attributes according to how they are perceived by customers and to estimate their impact on customer satisfaction. We collected qualitative data trough 300 questionnaires administered to tourist...

Tourist assistant – TAIS is a service-based mobile application that provides a tourist information about attractions around based on his/her preferences and current situation in location region. The paper presents a smart spacebased interaction model for TAIS services. The interaction model is backed by a two-layered ontology of tourism domain. The central idea of the interaction model is graph...

This paper presents the TOTEM framework for supporting the content creation and structuring for location-based games. Shapes (templates), Marbles (instances) and Pebbles (raw data) build the conceptual background while two integrated tools support the overall workflow: TOTEM.Designer, a web-application that allows for desktop-based authoring and TOTEM.Scout, a mobile app that allows for in-situ...

BACKGROUND There is preliminary evidence that mobile health (mHealth) apps are feasible, attractive, and an effective platform for the creation of self-management tools for persons living with HIV (PLWH). As a foundation for the current study, we conducted formative research using focus groups, participatory design sessions, and usability evaluation methods to inform the development of a health...

We introduce the new concept of community browsing: a group of people browsing the web together and simultaneously. Community browsing is part of the broader notion of shared experience, where individuals share the experience of an event. We have developed a prototype of a mobile application that enables community browsing, and involves new technologies such as a peer-to-peer Electronic Institu...

Current media for disseminating traffic conditions to motorists are often infrequent and lack sufficient detail. Mingle, a mobile application for visualizing historic traffic information in conjunction with current conditions, was developed to alert users to problematic areas and allow them to make informed decisions with respect to altering their route. Mingle layers select traffic datasets on...

New technology has been seen as a way for many businesses in the tourism industry to stay competitive and enhance their marketing campaign in various ways. AR has evolved as the buzzword of modern information technology and is gaining increasing attention in the media as well as through a variety of use cases. This trend is highly fostered across mobile applications as well as the hype of weara...

The success of future mobile services will largely depend on their ability to maximize their value in varying context. Contextual intelligence in devices, mobile applications and service platforms is needed to manage different mobile terminals, personalize content and services or to narrow down possibly very large sets of applicable services in a given situation. With this vision of Contextual ...