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Design and Evaluation of “Social Networking Radio” To Provide Voice and Sound of the Location Based Information

Authors:
Kosuke Miyasaka
Katsuhiko Ogawa

Keywords: Radio,Navigation,Speech synthesis,Smartphone

Abstract:
People in a city are usually seen spending a lot of time on their smartphones. By developing information technologies, we have become able to access information on the Internet and get in touch with friends anytime and anywhere. However, there is also the possibility that such behaviors make people a “cocoon” in social spaces. Therefore, we propose a new service called -social networking radio (SNR), which provides voice and sound of location-based information. By setting the voices in the city and listening while walking, we expect to encourage a user’s interest around the town. This paper describes the concept of SNR, the system design, and from the experimental results, considers the playing method and contents of comments

Pages: 72 to 77

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-521-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016