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- Beer, Thomas, et al.
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Exploiting E-C-A Rules for Defining and Processing Context-Aware Push Messages
- 2007
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Ingår i: Advances in Rule Interchange and ApplicationsInternational Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007, Proceedings. - Heidelberg & Berlin : Springer. - 9783540759744 ; , s. 199-206
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of this paper is to show that the E-C-A paradigm offers an excellent approach for specifying the behavior of context-aware information push services. Such a service enables its operator to provide the users with tailored messages related to their current situation (context). The paper introduces CAIPS, an implementation of such a service for the tourism domain. The underlying E-C-A rules are presented and the design of the associated rule-engine is described. The engine’s rule-interpreter is based on event-notification services and the object-oriented query-language HQL. The paper further presents a graphical high-level editor which supports business-experts in “writing” the CAIPS E-C-A rules. The presented approach enables the rapid development of new tailored messages (related to the user’s context) without the need to modify the underlying application, i.e. without the trouble of writing new code for new message types.
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- Fuchs, Matthias, et al.
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Behavioural Intention to use mobile information services in tourism : The case of the tourist guide Dolomiti SuperSki
- 2011
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Ingår i: Information Technology and Tourism. - 1098-3058. ; 13:4, s. 285-307
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobile information services show great potential both as an on-site information source for customers and as a communication and distribution channel for tourism providers. Although in nontourism domains the adoption rate of using mobile technologies has been growing exponentially, comparable figures are only moderate in travel and tourism. Moreover, relatively little research has been conducted to understand travelers' behavioral intention to use mobile technologies. thus, the article proposes a technology acceptance model which is especially designed for mobile information services in the tourism domain. the model is an extension of the Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of technology, and is empirically tested through laboratory-based usage data obtained from users evaluating a mobile tourist guide developed for the ski resort DolomitiSuperski. Structural equation modeling (SeM) revealed that hedonic quality and social influence are main drivers of the behavioral intention to use mobile technologies in tourism, while monetary transparency and price fairness emerged as major usage barriers.
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- Rasinger, Jörg, 1978-, et al.
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Building a Mobile Tourist Guide based on Tourists’ On-Site Information Needs
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tourism Analysis. - New York, Sydney, Tokyo : Cognizant Communication Corporation. - 1083-5423 .- 1943-3999. ; 14:4, s. 483-502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobile information services are gradually supplementing and may in the future even replace traditional information sources to support tourists during on-site stay. The scope of the paper is to identify already in the pre-prototype phase types and functionalities of mobile information services which are most relevant to tourists during their urban destination stay (Davis & Venkatesh, 2004). For this aim a user-centred approach using, both, focus groups and expert surveys is proposed. In addition, multiple regression based on acceptance data gathered from 705 tourists allow the deduction of potentially accepted mobile information services targeted to the specific destination use. Finally, by drawing on these results, both, the architectural framework as well as the various building and implementation steps of a mobile tourist guide called innsbruck.mobile are discussed
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- Rasinger, Jörg, 1978-, et al.
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Information Search with Mobile Tourist Guides - A Survey of Usage Intention. In: Information Technology and Tourism
- 2007
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Ingår i: Information Technology & Tourism. - : Cognizant Communication Corporation. - 1098-3058 .- 1943-4294. ; 9:3/4, s. 177-194
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As mobile tourist guides show huge potentials to support tourists’ information search, executives need to know which mobile systems characterized by which specific functionalities should be provided. The paper proposes an empirical approach combining qualitative and quantitative methods to deduce both, product definition and product marketing information related to mobile tourist guides, respectively. First, a methodology-mix combining qualitative (i.e. explorative survey, focus group interviews) and quantitative techniques (i.e. pilot study, expert interviews) responds to the question ‘Which services should be developed?’ Secondly, again in the pre-prototype phase and based on survey data (N = 705) ideal functionality compositions for promising tourist guides are deduced with regression analysis. Finally, based on technology acceptance theory (Venkatesh et al., 2003a) customer prejudices towards mobile tourist guides are identified. The obtained results support hypotheses indicating strong performance expectations and pronounced effort expectancies towards the deduced concepts designed to support information search by means of mobile tourist guides
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