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13.5 Users' Experience
Users' experience and suggestions of using the proposed intelligent travel
topic are summarized as follows:
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The pictures taken during travel are automatically uploaded and
categorized according to date and location. Therefore, it greatly saves
time to focus on editing the main part of the traveling article.
The well-arranged photographs and related location information
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help recall the significant events during a trip.
The geographic and path tracking data can be valuable information
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and referenced by others.
Batteries' lifetime becomes very short on a trip.
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While composing the travel topic, the referenced information about
the visited places provided by the agent is not all relevant and
required.
The interface of the editing travel note can be improved.
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The points suggested by users to improve the system are explained as
following; First, the battery of the portable pocket PC is a problem during a
travel because many required processes execute continuously such as GPS
receiver, camera, and data transmission. Therefore, preparing backup bat-
teries or recharging the battery during traveling is absolutely necessary.
Secondly, the geographic and referenced location information is not always
accurate because some places visited by users are not famous scenic spots
and have no required data on the digital map. Finally, we are working on
improving the search results of related location information from the Internet
and designing a friendlier interface.
13.6 Related Work
Location-based services have been long envisioned as an important element
and applied to various applications. Our system provides a different way
for individual users to record their travels and differs significantly from
traditional travel applications or mobile tourist guides. As discussed in Baus
et al. [4], it has been a great concern with the traveler about the place. In addi-
tion, an online travel service was dedicated for high quality images [8] and
helped travelers to plan their trips. Utilizing rich and accurate metadata of
pictures from photo forum sites, a virtual tour system can extract geographic
location information and assess the quality of them. Its primary purpose is
