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Mobile Fair Diary: hybrid interface for taking, browsing and sharing context-aware notes

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This paper describes the Mobile Fair Diary (MFD), which is designed to allow a housing fair customer to make a personalized digital recording of his/her visit to a hectic fairground for later use. The MFD is a hybrid interface service comprising of an application for a camera equipped smart phone and a website accessed by a PC. The smart phone application is used for taking context-aware notes such as visual codes, photos, dictations and text. The notes are uploaded onto a website, where they can be viewed with a PC in a contextually ordered view for browsing, organizing and sharing. The MFD was empirically evaluated in a real-life environment of use with genuine end users by a large-scale field trial at a national housing fair. The results testify to the very successful design of the MFD with high usefulness.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the National Technology Agency of Finland, the GETA Graduate School on Electronics, Telecommunications and Automation, The Finnish Housing Fair Co-operative Organization, and the Rotuaari project consortium for their invaluable support.

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  1. MediaTeam Oulu, University of Oulu, 4SOINFO, 4500, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Jani Korhonen, Timo Ojala, Vesa Kilpelänaho, Mikko Koskinen & Eveliina Viippola

  2. Department of Marketing, University of Oulu, 4SOINFO, 4600, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Annu Ristola & Manne Kesti

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Korhonen, J., Ojala, T., Ristola, A. et al. Mobile Fair Diary: hybrid interface for taking, browsing and sharing context-aware notes. Pers Ubiquit Comput 11, 577–589 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0119-y

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