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Utour Smartphone GPS Audio Tour App: an Example of Touring Pace University Proceedings of Student-Faculty Research Day, CSIS, Pace University, May 6th, 2016 UTour Smartphone GPS Audio Tour App: An Example of Touring Pace University Krina Patel, Rama Hanuma Pulipati, Andrew Preciado, and Matthew Ganis Seidenberg School of CSIS, Pace University, New York Abstract – GPS Tour is an audio tour that provides pre- systems became more common in daily life, companies recorded spoken commentary through mobile applications started worrying about pedestrians and walkers as well. similar to a walking tour. GPS tour provides audio files but A walking tour assistant application is mainly concerned we are trying to go a step further and create a UTour that with how user friendly your interaction is between the would allow a user to download a set of configurations, images, audio, and video that would lead them on a tour existing map, location information, and the media you through various locations. UTour is an Android app that add in that design [1]. allows users to create, distribute, discover and enjoy tours UTour is basically a walking assistant application worldwide. Walking tours are a great way to explore with with advanced features that will allow users to create and guides that can accompany you through locations from all view their own tour. The tour would load through an app over the world. This will offer a perspective that can enrich on user's smartphone and will use the GPS on the phone both real and virtual travel. UTour gives you an ability to create your own tour. You can easily share your knowledge, to guide user from place to place along a route and if user stories, and advice about any location in the world through is near a specified location within the uploaded media, your own experiences. UTour is developed in android by information about that location will be displayed on the consuming Google API services and the data is stored in screen. UTour will have an option to add images, videos, MongoDB database. and audios that would lead the user on a tour throughout a location of their choice. The user interface of the app Keywords – Google API, GPS, MongoDB will be kept simple and the screen will mainly show two pieces of information. One will be the map which will I. INTRODUCTION highlight the tour path and display more tour related MARTPHONES have changed everything. Just information like remaining miles, next tour stops, and II. Sabout everyone with access to it has a smartphone in estimated time to complete the tour. Once the user his or her pocket. This change to our daily lives comes reaches any tour stop in the tour, the screen will split into with applications that we can take with us on the go. One two and show the uploaded videos, images, description, of those applications is the Global Positioning System or and audio in one part of the screen and the maps will GPS. In the beginning the GPS was a basic system of continue on the second part of the screen for navigating entering your destination and the system will guide you the user to the next stop. The user will be able to skip tour from your current location to a new destination. After stops as well. User can also rate and comment the tours, some time, the GPS evolved and added in extra options which will help us maintain a list of top rated tours. that made the navigation system even more convenient Other than doing tours, UTour app would also give for its users. an ability to create a tour from your own perspective, Over time GPS systems have added in many features which can then be downloaded by others. Tours can be to personalize your experience. Features such as created by anybody for many different interests such as a bookmarking your most recent destination for a later museum, visiting campus, or exploring a city. A Pace visit, choosing the fastest route or the shortest route, University student with an interest in sports will focus on finding restaurants or gas stations near by your location, places like Fimerly Field, the Pace Football Field, and voice commands. Some of these features are the best Softball Field, and Goldstein Health Fitness Recreation examples of how developers are pushing the GPS system Center where as student more into studies will focus on in our phones. As web mapping and car navigation Academic Center and Library. With this application we A1-1 can allow anybody with an interest to explore, an needs. Integration of GPS into UTour app lets us navigate experience where they can learn about previously the users throughout the tour and tells the app current unknown locations. position of the user. GPS Systems are now used in many applications Aim of the project such as GPS Tour. GPS Tour is one type of application in Develop a mobile app that allows users to which pre-recorded audio is used to guide you through create and tour any place. your mobile device while you go out walking, travel on a Users of the app can create the tour for any bus, or go on trains. When you use a GPS, audio is place with their own perspective. triggered based on a user's location and provides Tour creation should have audiovisual information as well [3]. Using a rating system with the media support. GPS tours will help us find the locations that are of most interest to the users [4]. For many years people were While touring the app should navigate the using audio guide devices in parks and museums. It was user throughout the tour. designed only for one particular destination and the cost Simple and easy UI. of manufacturing such devices and maintaining such This paper explains the idea behind this app and services was not reasonable. Because of this it was not discusses the steps involved in its development. The common [2]. These tours can be created using a remained of the paper is structured as follows: Section 2 combination of software and hardware and some audio describes the related work, Section 3 gives the detailed tours can also be downloaded from the Internet for mobile explanation about the steps in development and the phones, often in MP3 format and are available from technologies used, Section 4 concludes this paper and organizations specializing in GPS tour development [5]. shows the scope for advancement of the app. Central Park mobile app is an informative application for the visitors of Central Park. It is available II. RELATED WORK in iTunes and Google Play Store. This app basically The GPS was originally designed for use in the military provides information about different places in central and it wasn’t until 2001 for a personal GPS device to be park and it also includes an interactive map, which shows available to the masses. When smartphones came to this places on the map. It also provides audio guides for market, we essentially had what is a small computer as some of these popular places, which the visitors can play our portable telephone. With that came applications for manually to know more about those places. A research those phones. It wasn’t long until buying a device for conducted by Christoph Bartneck of Eindhoven navigation was not as practical as downloading an University of Technology in 2006 at Van Abbe museum application to your phone for your navigation needs. proves that only audio tours are less interesting than Today all smartphones have access to a navigation audiovisual tours [6]. This research was conducted in system that can help you drive to an unknown location, order to find if the learning experience of the visitors help you walk around the city, or help you choose the best increased by using electronic tour guides. They path to drive to avoid traffic. developed a system named ubiNext for Van Abbe Many smartphones have a default GPS system museum, where the visitors can plan their tour before installed, but there are many other navigation options for visiting the museum. While visiting the museum the users to download through the use of an app store. These visitors were provided with the PDAs, which led them on alternative GPS applications can do what the basic GPS the tour of the museum. They could find more system can do and so much more. A popular GPS information about the art objects and listen and watch the application, Waze, is known to be a great alternative to media related to that object on this PDAs. The reactions the default system. This app can detect police on the way, to during their visits was recorded and analyzed to find potholes ahead, bad weather, stopped vehicles up ahead, results. The media for the art object was of two types, and can even detect and alternate your route around heavy only audio for some object and audio visual for others. traffic to get you to your destination even faster. Building The objects with audiovisual media were viewed more upon the standard GPS system will help further enhance than that only audio. UTour will overcome the two people getting to their destination as accessible as problems faced in the above applications. Firstly the tours possible. in the UTour app will play the media content Before smartphones we had to look at maps and automatically based on user’s location and secondly we write down instructions to get around. Now all we need are not restricted to only audio messages rather the user is an address and we can be there with little hassle.
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