This paper describes work carried out as part of the GUIDE project at Lancaster University. The overall aim of the project is to develop a context-sensitive tourist guide for visi...
Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Adri...
The continuing explosive growth of the web has not been matched by an adequate enhancement of the infrastructure on which it depends. Both consumers and producers are often left f...
Empirical evaluation of software systems in actual usage situations is critical in software engineering. Prototyping, beta testing, and usability testing are widely used to refine...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...