FlyingPics
(auto-generated photo album - mobile tourist assistance system)
The IT Science Centre in association with the Universities of Greifwald and Rostock, the partner OFFIS as well as the IT College Putbus, develops a mobile touristy assistance system, which supports potential tourists with the process of editing the vacation pictures, the creation of a multimedia photo album of the vacation during the stay in the vacation area until the post processing. Therefore a multimedia geographical information system will be settled about tourist interesting objects on the island of Rügen such as accommodations, restaurants, sights, cultural events but also the landscape such as waters, beaches and woods. The system allows the guest to get the information in detail before he starts his journey, to find a matching route as well as during and after the journey to manage the own pictures, notes and audio records. Owing to the personal interests and penchants, the system is able to offer proper sighs along the vacation route. Vacationers, who are enthusiastically in water sport e.g. will be able to find possibilities, hotels and restaurants in the directly environment of a harbour or a surf school.

The route could be transmitted to a mobile GPS supported instrument like a PDA. The PDA has the function of a mobile and digital journey and route-leader later. Is the tourist near by an object that belongs to his route, the suitable information is displayed in terms of text, pictures, video or audio. A card which displays the route, the sighs and the current position ensures a necessary overview. The records of pictures, text and audio as well as the reclined route, which are collected in the personal user profile, enables the system to refer a geographical position to the data. With the help of further information from our tourist database, individual photo albums could be automatically suggested or created in particular. The vacationer has to decide the structure and layout only. Afterwards this could be developed from an external photographic laboratory and could be send to the home address. Directly returned from the vacation, the tourist could hold a private journey album in his hands.