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| Supporting Context-Sensitive Information for City Visitors: The GUIDE Project | ||
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| Tuesday 18 May 1999 | 17.00 | Brian Spratt Room |
| Dr Nigel Davies Computing Department Lancaster University |
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The aim of the GUIDE project is to investigate the provision of context-sensitive mobile multimedia computing support for city visitors. In essence, the project is developing a number of hand-portable multimedia end-systems which provide information to visitors as they navigate an appropriately networked city. The end-systems are context-sensitive, ie they have knowledge of their users and of their environment including, most importantly, their physical location. This information is used to tailor the system's behaviour in order to provide users with an intelligent visitor guide.
The project differs from conventional context-sensitive tour guides in that all the information is downloaded to the end-systems via a wireless network.
In this talk I will describe the results of the first 22 months of the GUIDE project, concentrating on the requirements of the GUIDE system, the technologies we are employing to meet these requirements, our overall architectural approach and the initial results of user trials.
