A Mobile Guide to Support Tourists from Lençóis Maranhenses National Park

• Jayrison Silva IFMA
• Ariel Teles IFMA
• Monique Serra IFMA
• Francisco Silva UFMA
• Davi Viana UFMA

Abstract

The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (LMNP) is known worldwide and visited by tourists from various places. The accelerated growth of the LMNP region through tourism has brought new challenges, among them is the need to promote improvements in the provision of services related to assistance to the tourists. This paper presents the process of developing a mobile guide application, called Guia dos Lençóis, to assist tourists in LMNP and Barreirinhas, the city where tourists come into the park. It is also described a usability assessment that was performed with the proposed solution, which obtained promising results.

Keywords: Guide, App, Usability

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