A Proposal of Dynamic Content Search in aUbiquitous Tourist Guid

• Thiago Silva Souza IFAM
• Cristiano André da Costa UNISINOS
• Rodrigo da Rosa Righi UNISINOS
• Sandro José Rigo UNISINOS

Resumo

The growth of tourism associated with the development of information and communication technologies have changed the way people do tourism, because tourists now have several support tools at all stages of tourism. However, most of them do not consider important aspects. For example, the generation of tourist guides dynamically from information available on the Web. In addition, the guides often lack information about small towns, regarding number of population and economic aspects. Considering this scenario, the objective of this work is to propose a ubiquitous tourism model, based on mobile devices, called Ataîru. The main contribution is to perform a dynamic search for tourist contents in open databases available on the Web, presenting the results based on concepts of ubiquitous computing such as context awareness and transparency to the user. We performed an evaluation based on scenarios to assess the model.