Opening new dimensions for e-Tourism

被引：46

作者：

Berger H. ^{[1
]}

Dittenbach M. ^{[1
]}

Merkl D. ^{[2
]}

Bogdanovych A. ^{[3
]}

Simoff S. ^{[3
]}

Sierra C. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] E-Commerce Competence Center-EC3, 1220 Wien

[2] Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation, Technische Universität Wien, 1040 Wien

[3] Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW

[4] Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Catalonia, Barcelona

来源：

Virtual Reality | 2007年 / 11卷 / 2-3期

关键词：

Virtual World; Travel Agent; Tourism Product; Game Engine; Tourism Business;

D O I：

10.1007/s10055-006-0057-z

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摘要：

In this paper we describe an e-Tourism environment that takes a community-driven approach to foster a lively society of travelers who exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just listen to catch some interesting gossip. Moreover, business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from travel advisors or community members are constituent parts of this environment. All these happen in an integrated, game-like e-Business application where each e-Tourist is impersonated as an avatar. More precisely, we apply 3D Electronic Institutions, a framework developed and employed in the area of multi-agent systems, to the tourism domain. The system interface is realized by means of a 3D game engine that provides sophisticated 3D visualization and enables humans to interact with the environment. We present "itchy feet", a prototype implementing this 3D e-Tourism environment to showcase first visual impressions. This new environment is a perfect research playground for examining heterogeneous societies comprising humans and software agents, and their relationship in e-Tourism. © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006.

引用

页码：75 / 87

页数：12

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