Managing Emotional Requirements in a Context-Aware Mobile Application for Tourists

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Title

Managing Emotional Requirements in a Context-Aware Mobile Application for Tourists

Subject

context-aware mobile application
tourism application
user-centered design
emotions
emotional engagement

Description

The objective of this study was to unveil the importance of emotions and feelings in developing mobile-based tourism applications. We gathered and analyzed emotional requirements to develop a mobile context-aware application for tourists. Emotional requirements are non-functional requirements affecting users’ emotional experiences around using applications, which are important for sustainable application usage. Many tourism applications exist, but were designed without considering emotional requirements or related UX factors and emotions. We developed a proof-of-concept prototype service-based context-aware tourism application (SCATA), and users participated in the design and evaluation processes. Emotional requirements are key to sustainable usage, especially regarding security. This paper details the application design and evaluation processes, emotional requirements analysis in each design phase, and the emotional effects of content accessibility in the application’s offline mode in unknown environments. The results show that trust, security, adjustability, and reliability are important factors to users, especially in unknown environments.

Creator

Dirin, Amir
Laine, Teemu.H
Alamäki, Ari

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 12 No. 2 (2018); pp. 177-196
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2018-03-29

Rights

Copyright (c) 2018 Amir Dirin, Teemu.H Laine, Ari Alamäki

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Amir Dirin, Teemu Laine.H and Alamäki, Ari, Managing Emotional Requirements in a Context-Aware Mobile Application for Tourists, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2018, accessed November 8, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1302

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