The comprehensive guiding and navigation services on smart phones

Abstract

Guiding and Navigation are two common services on various occasions. They become more common in this era of popularity of mobile computing. A comprehensive service combines navigation and guiding on smart phone for 2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival is introduced in this paper. This service has two items run on APPs of mobile phone: navigation and guiding. The navigation APP provides visitors geographic guidance for lantern exhibition areas and is constructed with a custom map which has abundant attractions information for lantern exhibition other than normal map such as Google Map. The guiding APP provides visitors detailed explanation on content information of 3D animation which is digitizing version of a water painting in size of 80 meters long and 0.9 meter height. These two APPs fully utilize the advantage of smart phones especially built in sensory elements. These two APPs run on mobile devices with Android system. The amount of download for navigation and guiding APP was over 2500 and 100 respectively during the lantern festival. And the visitors expressed high levels of satisfaction for these two services. The implementation described in this paper can also be a reference for establishing navigation and guiding services at a large recreation area such as national park.