Mobile Commerce Application Development: Implementing Location-Aware Information Services

摘要

Mobile settingpsilas particularities and limitations are serious. In fact, enhancing the mobile browsing user experience is feasible only if perceptual and contextual considerations are employed. A case study of a context-aware location-based application is designed and implemented in this paper. It is capable to identify and to depict on the map userpsilas current location, to search and detect routes (and to mark on the map the userpsilas preferred route while he is in move), to display various user personal points of interest/attractions, along userpsilas current route, and to edit userpsilas personal selections regarding attractions. It is a customized application, based on Microsoft MapPoint Web Service technology, since each user receives information which is strictly related to his identity. Users are certainly may benefit from such personalized services and have access only to information of specific context without being annoyed with needless operations.