Information Technology Reference
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Real-Time Recording and Updating
of Personal Journeys via Ubiquitous
Computing
Technologies
Han-Bin Chang, Hsuan-Pu Chang, Hui-Huang Hsu,
Louis R. Chao, and Timothy K. Shih
CoNTENTS
13.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 284
13.2 Methodologies .......................................................................................... 285
13.2.1 Landmark Selection ................................................................... 285
13.2.2 Similar Travel Route Search...................................................... 287
13.3 The System Architecture......................................................................... 288
13.3.1 The Intelligent Travel Topic Wizard......................................... 289
13.3.2 The Intelligent Travel Topic Agent ........................................... 292
13.3.3 The Intelligent Travel Topic Management Server .................. 293
13.4 Implementation......................................................................................... 298
13.5 Users' Experience ..................................................................................... 301
13.6 Related Work............................................................................................. 301
13.7 Conclusion and Future ............................................................................ 303
References............................................................................................................. 304
Managing personal travels is a desirable, yet tedious work. In this chapter, we
introduce an intelligent travel topic management system. With this system,
the user can easily handle multimedia information during a journey, includ-
ing recording the real experience and updating the travel route according to
instant-fetched shared information from other users. The multimedia infor-
mation includes photos, audios, videos, and notes taken during the journey.
All the information can contain location information. Agent and mobile com-
puting technologies are used to implement the system. The user would be
able to use the system to record and update his or her personal journey in a
ubiquitous manner through a mobile device, like a personal digital assistant
(PDA) or a smart phone. Thus ubiquitous management of traveling records
and plans becomes feasible.
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