Human-center Design And Development Of Portable Intelligent Guides Terminal System

With the rapid development of travel industry and appearance of personalized travel, the traditional artificial guide has been unable to meet the demand of tourists, electronic guides system is advanced. The tourist guides system has come a long way since the first prototypes in the middle of 1990's, and its applications in travel industry are extended.In this paper, we attempt to present the development history of the tourist guides system and discuss the trends of tourist guides system. Then the conception model and system model about Intelligent Tourist Guide (ITG) based on pervasive computing are introduced, some design principles are also showed in detail. The knowledge discussed in this paper is valuable to design and develop the intelligent tourist guides system further.Research of ITG based on multimodal interaction, multimedia display and artificial intelligence technology, it has a better developing prospect. Based on user-centered design principles and from usability and user experience perspective, the article introduces the process of design. Then we develop the terminal system based on GPS GIS and Multimodal interaction. For the ITG system, we propose a multimodal architecture based on context-aware, and use Sonification and Auditory Icon to transmit feedback information. At last we make some testing and evaluations, and the result shows the system has met the use's demand.