<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The authors analyses the issues inherent in implementation of a multi-sensory mobile application which uses a map as an interface for an edutainment-style city guide for tourists. Two models – the triad of tourist experiences (3E), i.e. education, entertainment, and excitement, and the hierarchy of needs of Abraham Maslow – were used as the basis for identifying what conditions should be met by such an application to encourage its use by both local residents and tourists, in equal measure. It was decided that only open source software would be used to achieve the goal of the application.</p></abstract>

The authors analyses the issues inherent in implementation of a multi-sensory mobile application which uses a map as an interface for an edutainment-style city guide for tourists. Two models – the triad of tourist experiences (3E), i.e. education, entertainment, and excitement, and the hierarchy of needs of Abraham Maslow – were used as the basis for identifying what conditions should be met by such an application to encourage its use by both local residents and tourists, in equal measure. It was decided that only open source software would be used to achieve the goal of the application.

City guide as a multi-sensory mobile phone application

Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Menagement

Polish Cartographical Review

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The authors analyses the issues inherent in implementation of a multi-sensory mobile application which uses a map as an interface for an edutainment-style city...

City guide as a multi-sensory mobile phone application

Published Online: Jul 06, 2020

Page range: 16 - 26

Received: Mar 26, 2020

Accepted: May 20, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2020-0003

Keywords
mobile software, multisensory, city map, city guide, needs hierarchy

© 2020 Beata Konopska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

City guide as a multi-sensory mobile phone application

Published Online: Jul 06, 2020

Page range: 16 - 26

Received: Mar 26, 2020

Accepted: May 20, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2020-0003

Keywordsmobile software, multisensory, city map, city guide, needs hierarchy

© 2020 Beata Konopska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
mobile software, multisensory, city map, city guide, needs hierarchy