The Design of Mobile Network-Based Guide System and Personalized Service Model

Abstract

With the advent of information technology, the products that integrate the wireless communication and handheld device become more and more popular. Due to the powerful computing power and compactness in size for carry, handheld device becomes popular for users to process personal related work, to read the e-book or to execute some programs. In traditional tour guide systems, users always hear the narrator or use the guide system to tour unilaterally and they could not explore the contents based on their own interests. Thus, the traditional guide system lacks the interaction between users and show rooms. So we propose an application for guide system of museum. The guide system consists of a Tablet PC with IEEE 802.11 wireless networking capability and combines methodology of intelligent searching model. Our purpose is to design a guide system that is suitable for use and can provide a good learning environment for general users. Our guide system combines the positioning technique and location-awareness to provide the surrounding information for users. The guide system not only accepts the user’s search query to find the target but also receives the information from users that they noted during the tour guide. Users can download the related notes as references that were previously recorded by other users. Under such a design concept the contents of our guide system will keep on improving such that an interactive learning environment will be gradually established. In addition, the system will record the process of tour guide from users. We also design a data mining model to provide personalized service of tour guide. The system displays the process of tour guide and discusses the functions of users interface. The experimental results show that our system is suitable to tour guide for particular domain. Finally, the designed system is particularly suitable to outdoor teaching for students and can be easily extended to scenic introduction for some places or other museums.