Abstract:

Prevalent in today society mobile devices indeed come with technical capabilities offering both complex software applications and location-based services. However, seldom are the mobile-devices software and hardware potential fully exploited, seen that the navigation-aid systems are the most ordinary and significant advantages being taken from such capabilities. Furthermore, bringing environment-contextualized information and services to users through their mobile-devices seems yet to be roughly explored as an electronic business. For example, when someone is on tour and spontaneously wants to find information, or want to book/buy tickets, concerning cultural events taking place in their geographical surroundings, up to present, it is not known an available system or service capable of providing it. To overcome this problem, we propose a new ubiquitous events promotion e-business system, which enables one to search for cultural events based on geographic location, also supporting ticket-booking, ticket-selling and ticket-validation services.