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This paper reports on the design and development of an Android-based context-aware system to support Erasmus students during their mobility in Porto. It enables: (i) guest users to create, rate and store personal points of interest (POI) in a private, local on board database; and (ii) authenticated users to upload and share POI as well as get and rate recommended POI from the shared central database. The system is a distributed client / server application. The server interacts with a central database that maintains the user profiles and the shared POI organized by category and rating. The Android GUI application works both as a standalone application and as a client module. In standalone mode, guest users have access to generic info, a map-based interface and a local database to store and retrieve personal POI. Upon successful authentication, users can, additionally, share POI as well as get and rate recommendations sorted by category, rating and distance-to-user.
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Bruyneel, K., Malheiro, B. (2014). ErasmusApp: A Location-Based Collaborative System for Erasmus Students. In: De Strycker, L. (eds) ECUMICT 2014. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05440-7_4
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