In this paper, we present PSiS (Personalized Sightseeing Tours Recommendation System) Mobile. PSiS Mobile is our proposal to a mobile recommendation and planning support system, which is designed to provide effective support during the tourist visit with context-aware information and recommendations about places of interest (POI), exploiting tourist preferences and context.

This study proposes the following two methods applying one-dimensional FFT (fast Fourier transform) algorithm: (1) a method for finding pleasant photographs of local tourist spots, and (2) a method for creating music from these photographs. We define “pleasant photograph” as the photograph containing 1/f noise components since it has been suggested that the 1/f -noise structure in visual art as...

This paper presents a new model to coordinate the movements of a large number of autonomous agents in a ubiquitous computing scenario. This model is based on the concept of computational fields (Co-Fields): distributed data structures providing agents with a perception of the environment in terms of abstract force fields. Fields are dynamically constructed by the components of an embedded infra...

The growing perception that the Internet is becoming an engine of global economic and social change has inspired both governments and intergovernmental agencies to accelerate the diffusion of the Internet around the globe via multimillion dollar programs and initiatives. Unfortunately, few empirical studies guide these initiatives. The purpose of this research is to investigate the causes that ...

This research aims to examine tourists’ perception of the sustainable tourism development of the Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province, China. It reviews tourists’ opinions on three sustainability aspects of tourism (economic, environmental and socio-cultural aspects) and assess differences among tourist demographics. The research used non-random convenient sampling. 384 questionnaires were distri...

This document reports on the activities carried out during a four-week visit of Roberto Cavada at the NASA Ames Research Center. The main goal was to test the practical applicability of the framework proposed by Pecheur and Cimatti, where a diagnosability problem is reduced to a Symbolic Model Checking problem.

Roger J. Phillips,* Maria T. Zuber, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Michael T. Mellon, James W. Head, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Nathaniel E. Putzig, Sarah M. Milkovich, Bruce A. Campbell, Jeffrey J. Plaut, Ali Safaeinili, Roberto Seu, Daniela Biccari, Lynn M. Carter, Giovanni Picardi, Roberto Orosei, P. Surdas Mohit, Essam Heggy, Richard W. Zurek, Anthony F. Egan, Emanuele Giacomoni, Federica Russo, Marco Cutigni...

The presentation of information using multiple modalities influences the perception of users, their comfort, and their performance in using a computer-based information system. This paper presents a user study investigating the effects of different output modality-combinations on the effectiveness to transport information and on the user’s acceptance of the system. We chose a tourist informatio...

This study attempts to explore the significance of visitors' perceptions of a site in relation to their own heritage as an important factor for understanding tourist behaviour and for the management of heritage settings. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, The Netherlands was chosen as the focus of the current research, which is composed of two field studies. The first, relates to tourists who h...

TeleMorph dynamically generates multimedia presentations using output modalities that are determined by the bandwidth available on a mobile device’s wireless connection. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this research TeleTuras, a tourist information guide for the city of Derry will implement the solution provided by TeleMorph, thus demonstrating its effectiveness. This paper concentrates on ...