Mobile agents for mobile tourists: a user evaluation of Gulliver's Genie

被引：23
作者：
O'Grady, MJ [1 ]
O'Hare, GMP
Sas, C
机构：
[1] Univ Coll Dublin, Dept Comp Sci, PRISM Lab, Dublin 4, Ireland
[2] Univ Lancaster, Dept Comp, Lancaster LA1 4WA, England
来源：
INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS | 2005年 / 17卷 / 04期
基金：
爱尔兰科学基金会;
关键词：
user evaluation; mobile computing; context-sensitive service delivery; intelligent agents;
D O I：
10.1016/j.intcom.2005.01.003
中图分类号：
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
How mobile computing applications and services may be best designed, implemented and deployed remains the subject of much research. One alternative approach to developing software for mobile users that is receiving increasing attention from the research community is that of one based on intelligent agents. Recent advances in mobile computing technology have made such an approach feasible. We present an overview of the design and implementation of an archetypical mobile computing application, namely that of an electronic tourist guide. This guide is unique in that it comprises a suite of intelligent agents that conform to the strong intentional stance. However, the focus of this paper is primarily concerned with the results of detailed user evaluations conducted on this system. Within the literature, comprehensive evaluations of mobile context-sensitive systems are sparse and therefore, this paper seeks, in part, to address this deficiency. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：343 / 366
页数：24
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