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Happy New Year! A few days ago, we celebrated the first toUrCAmI (#tourcami11) workshop in the framework of the V International Symposium (now, Conference) on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2011. The workshop took place on December 9th 2011 in … Continue reading →

This is the programme for the I International Workshop on Contextual Computing and Ambient Intelligence in Tourism, toUrCAmI’11, that will be held in the framework of the V Symposium in Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI’11. We will be tweeting … Continue reading →

We already have the list of accepted papers to the I International Workshop on Contextual Computing and Ambient Intelligence in Tourism that will be held in Riviera Maya, Mexico, on December 9th 2011 under the V International Symposium on Ubiquitous … Continue reading →

We have found out recently that the COURSE project has been accepted. We have been working on this proposal for a couple of years, with different partners and different project calls. Finally, we have managed to overcome the administrative difficulties … Continue reading →

At least in Europe. We talk and talk about context-awareness… Definition(s), architectures, problems and so on, but we have not talked, so far, about connectivity technologies, or communication technologies. We always take for granted that we have an Internet connection … Continue reading →

As I announced last week, we attended the workshop on Context-based services in Tourism at Bournemouth University. First of all, I would like to thank our friends there for the fantastic organisation. It was a great opportunity to get some … Continue reading →

Hi all! Let me write just a few words to present the two upcoming workshops on Contextual Computing in Tourism I am working on at the moment. We (as CICtourGUNE) have been working together with Bournemouth University in the organisation … Continue reading →

One of the main challenges in context aware computing is the modeling of context data. It is crucial to have a rich context data modeling language in order to manage data by computers. Several approaches have been used, like key-value … Continue reading →

Inspired in the definition of Context provided by A.K. Dey, I would argue that context in tourism is tourism is the information that characterises the visitor (personal sphere) and his or her environment (augmented sphere). This definition is specified more in detail … Continue reading →

There are various things to take into account in context-awareness such as the evolution of mobile devices, interaction issues, communication technology alternatives and so on. More recently, as I will comment later on, the success and proliferation of apps is … Continue reading →