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Development of a GeoTour Support System Using a Microblog

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Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing (CollabTech 2016)

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Abstract

A GeoTour is a tour around natural terrains and landscapes. The problems with GeoTours are mainly of the following three types: participants often have difficulties in understanding technical terms that are used by Geoguides; since the distance between Geosites is often relatively large, the destination indicated by the Geoguide can be difficult for participants to discern; GeoTours currently have a relatively low profile. Therefore, in this study, we have developed a GeoTour support system using a microblog entitled Twi-Geo. The main purposes of Twi-Geo are to support participants’ understanding, and to increase the profile of GeoTours. Twi-Geo contains two main functions. Firstly, it offers a guide-explanation function to support Geoguides in delivering their photographs and explanatory text of Geosites to the participants. Secondly, there is a tagging function to support participants when they post Tweets through the Twi-Geo system; the hashtag #GeoTour is added automatically to the Tweet, which advertises GeoTours subtly to the participant’s followers. Evaluation of our experimental results showed that the guide-explanation function of Twi-Geo helps to improve the understanding of Geoguide material, and that participants’ automatically tagged Tweets are likely to increase the visibility of GeoTours.

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Notes

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    Accreditation organization of Geoparks in Japan.

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    AGARA Kii Minpo http://www.agara.co.jp/news/daily/?i=279635 (reference 2016-4-17).

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    http://www.nankikumanogeo.jp (reference 2016-4-17).

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    https://twitter.com.

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    Abbreviation Social Networking Service.

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    A famous tourist spot in both Wakayama Prefecture.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported partly by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25242037 and an Original Research Support Project at Wakayama University during 2012–2016.

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  1. Graduate School of System Engineering, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan

    Shogo Taniguchi & Takashi Yoshino

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  1. Wakayama University , Wakayama-city, Japan

    Takashi Yoshino

  2. CSIE;Taoyuan County, National Central University CSIE;Taoyuan County, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Gwo-Dong Chen

  3. Dep. of Mgmt Control and Infor. Systems, University of Chile Dep. of Mgmt Control and Infor. Systems, Santiago, Chile

    Gustavo Zurita

  4. Asahidai, JAIST Asahidai, Nomi-shi, Japan

    Takaya Yuizono

  5. University of Tsukuba , Tsukuba, Japan

    Tomoo Inoue

  6. University of Chile , Santiago, Chile

    Nelson Baloian

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Taniguchi, S., Yoshino, T. (2016). Development of a GeoTour Support System Using a Microblog. In: Yoshino, T., Chen, GD., Zurita, G., Yuizono, T., Inoue, T., Baloian, N. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 647. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2618-8_18

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