Developing a Context Sensitive Tourist Guide

The GUIDE project is investigating the provision of context-sensitive mobile multimedia computing support for city visitors. In essence, the project is developing systems and application-level support for hand-portable multimedia end-systems which provide information to visitors as they navigate an appropriately networked city. The endsystems being developed are context-sensitive, i.e. 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.