RevisiTour: Enriching the Tourism Experience With User-Generated Content

Kang, Youn Ah; Stasko, John; Luther, Kurt; Ravi, Avinash; Xu, Yan

doi:10.1007/978-3-211-77280-5_6

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“…Combining this fact with the growing willingness of tourist of sharing their experience with others [7], it is not surprising the numerous examples of user created and managed travel web sites and applications available (travelblog, wikitravel, …). Even the official tourism organizations are successfully starting to include usergenerated content on their sites [8] as a way of promoting their destination.…”

Section: Applications In the Tourism Domainmentioning

confidence: 98%

A mobile platform for on-the-move user-generated tourist contents

García

Linaza

Arbulu

et al. 2008

2008 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

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The paper presents the implementation of a platform which allows the generation, annotation and retrieval of on-themove multimedia tourist contents while on a tourist destination. The platform toggles the different stages of the processes involved on the cycle of life of the content: creation, indexation, storage and publication. The application has been implemented using the J2ME standard to take advantage of the standard APIs implemented on the last generation mobile phones. Content annotation is based on multilingual folksonomies, allowing a widespread approach to describe the content and strengthening the social nature of the on-the-move multimedia user-generated content. An authorized person or body filters it before being published. Once user-generated multimedia tourist contents are accepted, they are published using a tool into a web page. This GUI allows browsing for contents provided by individual users or those including a tag or keyword. Finally, the paper provides a brief summary of the evaluation of the prototype.

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Section: Applications In the Tourism Domainmentioning

confidence: 98%

A mobile platform for on-the-move user-generated tourist contents

García

Linaza

Arbulu

et al. 2008

2008 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

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“…Inspired by the concept, several context-aware systems catering for user experience sharing have been developed. In RevisiTour (Kang et al, 2008), the system enables visitors to organize photos taken from tour sites and share them with others.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SOLE: context‐aware sharing of living experiences

Zhu

Oliya²,

Pung³

et al. 2011

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

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Purpose -The rapid advances in the technologies of mobile computing and wireless communications have facilitated the use of applications and services on handheld devices. Sharing of living experience (SOLE) is one such service, through which users can share their experience of daily activities such as shopping, entertainment, and traveling. This paper seeks to study SOLE in more detail. Design/methodology/approach -The paper presents an application framework for a context-aware SOLE which considers location, preferences, and other useful information for a seamless user experience. SOLE leverages on the service-oriented middleware, Coalition. Entities of interest are represented as services registered with Coalition, which are organized using location information. This facilitates location-based selection of entities for associating or retrieving experiences. In addition, Coalition incorporates the contexts of users in the discovery and delivery of experience information. Besides, to cater for resource constraints of mobile devices, the concept of "proxy" is introduced. Findings -A detailed study of SOLE, namely, its design as well as its interaction with the middleware, information providers and information consumers, is provided. As a proof of concept, a prototype of SOLE for mobile phone users is also provided. The experiments show the ease of using SOLE and its acceptable performance in practice. Originality/value -SOLE is generic and scalable, by not assuming a specific application scenario; flexible, by allowing the user to choose where to store the experience data and to specify his audience; and context-aware by considering the contexts of the user such as location and preferences in the experience sharing process.

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“…An example of an application where user generated content is used to enrich the user experience can be found in (Kang et al, 2008). A visitor's path and timestamp are recorded on a badge during an aquarium visit.…”

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Interest based selection of user generated content for rich communication services

Strobbe

Laere

Dauwe

et al. 2010

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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The last few years, we have witnessed an exponential growth in available content, much of which is user generated (e.g. pictures, videos, blogs, reviews, etc.). The downside of this overwhelming amount of content is that it becomes increasingly difficult for users to identify the content they really need, resulting into considerable research efforts concerning personalised search and content retrieval.On the other hand, this enormous amount of content raises new possibilities: existing services can be enriched using this content, provided that the content items used match the user's personal interests. Ideally, these interests should be obtained in an automatic, transparent way for an optimal user experience.In this paper two models representing user profiles are presented, both based on keywords and with the goal to enrich real-time communication services. The first model consists of a light-weight keyword tree which is very fast, while the second approach is based on a keyword ontology containing extra temporal relationships to capture more details of the user's behavior, however exhibiting lower performance. The profile models are supplemented with a set of algorithms, allowing to learn user interests and retrieving content from personal content repositories.In order to evaluate the performance, an enhanced instant messaging communication service was designed. Through simulations the two models are assessed in terms of real-time behavior and extensibility. User evaluations Preprint submitted to Journal of Network and Computer Applications October 26, 2009 allow to estimate the added value of the approach taken. The experiments conducted indicate that the algorithms succeed in retrieving content matching the user's interests and both models exhibit a linear scaling behavior. The algorithms perform clearly better in finding content matching several user interests when benefiting from the extra temporal information in the ontology based model.

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RevisiTour: Enriching the Tourism Experience With User-Generated Content

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

A mobile platform for on-the-move user-generated tourist contents

A mobile platform for on-the-move user-generated tourist contents

SOLE: context‐aware sharing of living experiences

Interest based selection of user generated content for rich communication services

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