Supporting Access to Museum Information for Mobile Visitors

نویسندگان

  • Carmine Ciavarella
  • Fabio Paternò
چکیده

A number of applications can benefit from the use of mobile devices. An example is the museum application domain where a wide variety of users want to access information regarding the works of art while freely moving about. In this paper we discuss the possible design choices when developing interactive mobile applications supporting this type of user and show which have been adopted in a specific case study and why.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003