Abstract:

This paper proposes the design of a LocationBased Service (LBS) mechanism to provide a theme tour in which people can deeply experience heritage using handheld devices. In order to fulfill the LBSbased heritage touring experience, a metadata element set has been defined to describe the heritage content. In this study, our proposed LBS mechanism design includes (1) a hierarchical content retrieving method for retrieving content efficiently and (2) a content cache and arrangement method for providing appropriate contents to users, and (3) a triggering of content presentation method for presenting the corresponding contents in the right time instant. To verify our DEH heritage exploring system, we also have an evaluation of retrieving content and a case usage and then have the questionnaire about the using experience.

Key words: heritage exploring system;locationbased services;touring system;LBS content retrieving