Trends in Internet and Ubiquitous Cartography

2008 ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Cell Phone ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Gps Navigation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World

The widespread distribution of maps through the Internet is a direct result of the introduction of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The mobile Web, enabled through cell phones, is now creating an even more ubiquitous map form. These methods of map distribution facilitate greater access to spatial information, increased levels of interactivity with maps, real-time locational information, and greater integration of multimedia content through pictures, sound, and video. While normally not networked, GPS navigation devices have also changed the map-use landscape. Examined here are the current trends in online- and cell-phone-delivered maps.

The (Re)Shaping of the Israeli Sport Media: The Case of Talk-Back

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yair Galily
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Sport Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Web News ◽  
Source Of Information

From its explosive development in the last decade of the 20th century, the World Wide Web has become an ideal medium for dedicated sports fanatics and a useful resource for casual fans, as well. Its accessibility, interactivity, speed, and multimedia content have triggered a fundamental change in the delivery of mediated sports, a change for which no one can yet predict the outcome (Real, 2006). This commentary sheds light on a process in which the talk-back mechanism, which enables readers to comment on Web-published articles, is (re)shaping the sport realm in Israeli media. The study on which this commentary is based involved the comparative analysis of over 3,000 talk-backs from the sports sections of 3 daily Web news sites (Ynet, nrg, and Walla!). The argument is made that talkbacks serve not only as an extension of the journalistic sphere but also as a new source of information and debate.

Pedometer Cell Phone Applications and Future Trends in Measuring Physical Activity

2013 ◽  
pp. 324-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Åkerberg ◽  
Maria Lindén ◽  
Mia Folke
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
World Population ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Means

A huge proportion of the world population is suffering from lifestyle related and preventable welfare diseases. Physical activity is one important means of achieving beneficial health impacts and of reducing the risk of chronic disease. Pedometers are often used to measure physical activity. Nowadays, cell phones are very common, and pedometer applications enable measurements to be made by a device that is already owned. This chapter presents a study of the measurement accuracy of pedometer cell phone applications. The results show that only one combination of pedometer application and cell phone provided high accuracy when tested by different test persons. In some cases, the measurements indicate that the orientation of the cell phone used during measurement might be relevant. In addition, it would be valuable to gain knowledge about the overall and everyday physical activity pattern, which would be very valuable in contributing to a healthier population.

Toward Geospatial Collaborative Tourism Recommender Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 212-248
Author(s):  
Zahra Bahramian ◽  
Rahim Ali Abbaspour ◽  
Christophe Claramunt
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
User Profile ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Finding

Tourism activities are highly dependent on spatial information. Finding the most interesting travel destinations and attractions and planning a trip are still open research issues to GIScience research applied to the tourism domain. Nowadays, huge amounts of information are available over the world wide web that may be useful in planning a visit to destinations and attractions. However, it is often time consuming for a user to select the most interesting destinations and attractions and plan a trip according to his own preferences. Tourism recommender systems (TRSs) can be used to overcome this information overload problem and to propose items taking into account the user preferences. This chapter reviews related topics in tourism recommender systems including different tourism recommendation approaches and user profile representation methods applied in the tourism domain. The authors illustrate the potential of tourism recommender systems as applied to the tourism domain by the implementation of an illustrative geospatial collaborative recommender system using the Foursquare dataset.

The Semantic Web in Tourism

2011 ◽  
pp. 675-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Miranda Lima ◽  
José Moreira
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Selection Of

The emergence of the World Wide Web made available massive amounts of data. This data, created and disseminated from many different sources, is prepared and linked in a way that is well-suited for display purposes, but automation, integration, interoperability or context-oriented search can hardly be implemented. Hence, the Semantic Web aims at promoting global information integration and semantic interoperability, through the use of metadata, ontologies and inference mechanisms. This chapter presents a Semantic Model for Tourism (SeMoT), designed for building Semantic Web enabled applications for the planning and management of touristic itineraries, taking into account the new requirements of more demanding and culturally evolved tourists. It includes an introduction to relevant tourism concepts, an overview of current trends in Web Semantics research and a presentation of the architecture, main features and a selection of representative ontologies that compose the SeMoT.

Critical Literacy and Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Marsha Grace ◽  
Susan Elwood ◽  
Mary Beth Tierce
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Literacy And Technology

Imagine that you do not have access to your Blackberry, your cell phone, digital camera, laptop, or the World Wide Web. Imagine that this level of power and this level of language have all been denied to you. Finally, imagine that you are in a situation where information is filtered, withheld, distorted, or narrowed in the name of protecting your safety or even merely to control your thoughts and behaviors. Imagine those things; and you now have the intersection of critical literacy and technology.

Multimedia Content Adaptation

2005 ◽  
pp. 2051-2057
Author(s):  
David Knight ◽  
Marios C. Angelides
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communications ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Adaptation ◽  
The World ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Multimedia Access ◽  
Multimedia Content Adaptation ◽  
State Of Affairs

The previous decade has witnessed a wealth of advancements and trends in the field of communications and subsequently, multimedia access. Four main developments from the last few years have opened up the prospect for ubiquitous multimedia consumption: wireless communications and mobility, standardised multimedia content, interactive versus passive consumption and the Internet and the World Wide Web. While individual and isolated developments have produced modest boosts to this existing state of affairs, their combination and cross-fertilisation have resulted in today’s complex but exciting landscape. In particular, we are beginning to see delivery of all types of data for all types of users in all types of conditions (Pereira & Burnett, 2003).

Disability and mobile Internet

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expanded Concept

As the World Wide Web turns 25, it is an appropriate time to ask: where are we are now with disability and the Internet? A good place to look is in the burgeoning area of Internet and mobile technology. Accordingly, this paper explores the issues and prospect for disability and mobile Internet. It provides a brief history of the entwined nature of the rise of disability and the Internet, discusses the emergence of mobile Internets, and then turns to a discussion of mobile Web accessibility. It concludes by noting the limits of mobile Web accessibility, for its struggle to adopt an expanded concept of disability — but also because of growing complexity of mobile Internets.

HTML5 and the Mobile Web

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Curran ◽  
Aaron Bond ◽  
Gavin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Uniform Solution

Accessing the Web from mobile devices is a popular practice. Trends show that the mobile space is becoming the method through which many consumers access content – both through native and web applications. These applications have expanded the browsing experience, but have also complicated the development process. A need exists for a simple, uniform solution which HTML5 is attempting to address. HTML is a mark-up language, now on its fifth edition, used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Because of the large increase in users of mobile devices, internet access on these devices is widely used. The creation of web sites, web documents, and applications are done with HTML5, as it is compatible with both PC and mobile device browsers. However, with its lengthy development process, it is not yet apparent if HTML5 can incorporate the demands of developers in a changing environment. This paper provides an overview of the use of HTML5 in structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web and compatibility issues on mobile browsers, key features, tool’s, and the advantages and disadvantages on the mobile web devices as well as the state of the mobile web.

Teaching with Educational Technology

2006 ◽  
pp. 85-124
Author(s):  
Yukiko Inoue ◽  
Suzanne Bell
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Simple Point ◽  
Global System ◽  
Computer Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

There was a time, not too many years ago, when word processing was the most popular computer activity among students. For most students, the computer was little more than a high-powered typewriter. Today, a PC can be a window into the global system of interconnected networks known as the Internet…. The World Wide Web makes the Internet accessible to people all over the planet. The Web is a huge portion of the Internet that includes a wealth of multimedia content accessible through simple point-and-click programs called Web browsers. Web browsers on PCs and other devices serve as windows into the Web’s richly diverse information space. (Beekman, 2005, pp. 16-17)

Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

2010 ◽  
pp. 272-284
Author(s):  
Tobias Kollmann ◽  
Carina Lomberg
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Generation Technology

Both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 were linked directly to new stages in the development of e-business. Whereas the distinction between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 became widely accepted in literature and practice, we are merely at the beginning of the possibilities arising from current trends culminating in our information society. Information emerges increasingly as a major factor of production, allowing the activation of innovative business opportunities. However, over the past years, a sheer explosion of supplies has taken place. This development is both a blessing and a curse as it leads to an oversupply of information within the World Wide Web. Thus, the time needed for finding required information may take longer eventually. Therefore, a next generation technology is needed being capable to cope with these challenges. Due to the logic of this chain of ideas, Web 3.0 technologies are characterized particularly by demand-orientated systems, i.e. demand for objects and services are at the centre. Starting point are demand-driven registration and specification systems. The consumer is at the centre of these processes and will gain individual help, comparable to an information desk. Not only information but also individual products and services may be released (customized products). Against the background of an increasing information overload, the question to be asked is how technological and market-oriented future developments will cope with these challenges. This chapter aims at clarifying this overall development with the objective of giving impulses for the 3rd generation of e-business. For this purpose, the characteristics of each generation (Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0) are clearly highlighted.

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