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Evaluation of theWireless Network used by a Tour Guide in a Cultural Environment

Authors:
Ricardo Tesoriero
José Antonio Gallud
María Dolores Lozano
Víctor Manuel Penichet
Habib Moussa Fardoun

Keywords: Wi-Fi;Human-Computer Interaction; Mobile applications

Abstract:
Wireless tour guides are mobile applications running on a PDA that are very popular among cultural environments, such as museums and art exhibitions. The Human-Computer Interaction quality derived from the use of these guides heavily depends on the wireless network used to access the information of the artefacts in the cultural environment. This work presents the evaluation of a Wi-Fi network used by a tour guide deployed in a real museum in Spain. This task is based on a set of signal and noise measurements of the wireless network used by the system at measurement points. The analysis embraces the coverage of the wireless network, the set of environmental factors that may explain the low signal level in some measurement points and the access point selection algorithm used by the mobile device. As result of the evaluation, we have identified a set of weak point in the network development. However, they were not relevant enough to alter the actual network deployment.

Pages: 176 to 181

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-100-7

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010