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