The Research And Design Of LBS-Based Obile Social Networking Services For Tourism

The rapid development of Mobile Internet and smart phones directly enhance the experience of using mobile phone to obtain all kinds of information .At the same time, the location based service of mobile phone is becoming mature, it has became people's connection between the virtual and real world. Under such a condition, mobile social network services will be in the next few years get a rapid development. While tourism service is an industry highly dependent on the information transmission. On this background, the tourism software with strong characteristics of location on the mobile Internet will have new development space. Therefore, this paper explored the research subject combined location services, social networks and tourism services together in mobile Internet, trying to provide users with a good user experience mobile phone service: LBS-Based Mobile Social Network Services for Tourism.This research is mainly divided into several parts: market analysis, relevant theoretical research, user demand survey, function frame design, interaction design, prototype design and practice. First of all, this paper research to some related concepts - location based service, mobile SNS, travel network, and make research summary and induction. Then, this paper make a survey based on the related services available on the market, sum up the advantages and shortcomings of those services. Then, according to the results above, I set the target user population, and carried out a detailed user demand analysis. With the steps of interaction design, low-fi and high-fi prototype design , a mobile phone software called "iTravel" will be designed finally.