Proposal Abstract:
Providing Mobile
Access
to a Community-based
3D e-Tourism Environment
Tourism provides the foundation for user-generated content and online
communities, allowing travellers
to search for, receive and exchange information before or after trip.
Virtual tourism environments, impersonating community members as avatars
in a 3D world, provide a new way of communication and interaction
possibilities.
What is still missing is the support of the on-trip phase of the tourism
life cycle. This enables travellers
to access community services while on move through their mobile devices,
and on the other hand, providing the possibility of sharing the visits
on an ad hoc basis with the community members. This proposal sheds light
onto this topic by establishing a framework to classify possible mobile
services as a first step.
Keywords:
online communities, mobile location based services, tourism, virtual
reality
Biography:
Christoph Grün studied Information Systems at the Johannes Kepler
University of Linz/Austria. Since May this year, he is working as a
research assistant at the Institute of Software Technology and
Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Basically, his
research interests cover e-commerce applications, but focus is on mobile
technology.
