Xiao Yang MSc Dissertation 2014/15
Mobile app for an Interactive pedestrain campus tour
Supervised by R.Gaizauskas
Abstract
Fuelled by increasing the globalization and international competition, using the speech- based dialogue and knowledge bases to support pedestrian navigation and explore the urban environments around the city has become a hot issue for mobile devices developers. These contribute to the increasing competition of developers and to gaining sustainable competitive advantages.
The aim of this project is to build an interactive mobile app based on android system, which provides a Sheffield university pedestrian campus tour. The overall project contains four sub projects naming Mobile Application, Dialogue System, Knowledge Base and Question Answering. This project focuses on the first one, which an Android Mobile Application is designed and developed.
The project implements a location-based app using a speech-based dialogue system and GPS system to report the userâs location on a map of campus. With the awareness of location information, the app handles the location-based queries about nearby buildings and fulfills a function that navigates the user to a destination they preferred. In the counterpart, user is also allowed to manually input information when locating strategy failed. The two different routes are accomplished by retrieving information from sever, where Dialogue System, Knowledge Base is running.
In conclusion, this aim of the project is achieved by implementing an Android mobile application graphical interface, accurately locating, route planning as well as navigating and connecting to a backend server to retrieve information from.
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