This document summarizes a student project that aims to develop a mobile city tour guide app for Amsterdam called "Semantour" that is built upon linked open data. The app will allow tourists like Jack to learn more about locations in Amsterdam while walking through the city. It will pull information from various linked open data sources about Amsterdam, and the user interface will support adjusting the tour in real-time, finding points of interest, viewing detailed information, related content, and overviews. The student will gather requirements through data analysis, scenario creation, and focus groups, and will design and evaluate two versions of the interface.

1. User interaction design for an
LOD-based mobile cultural city
tour guide
Edwin Schootemeijer
Supervisors: Lora Aroyo & Victor de
Boer

2. Have you ever followed a tour and got
frustrated?

3. Scenario
Tourist Jack would like to learn more while walking through the
city of Amsterdam...

4. 'Semantour'
Not just another tour...
● Build on a different data type
● Deals with user constraints

5. Linked Open Data
● Amsterdam Museum
Wikipedia State Monuments
Amsterdam City Archive
Sound and Vision Openbeelden
● The Linked Data allows the
application to determine locations
and objects that are related to the
current location

7. Research questions
● Which data aspects are used?
a. The types of LOD data sets
b. The links between the LOD data sets
c. The types of collections
● What should the user interface support?
a. Adjusting the tour real-time
b. Finding a location of interest
c. Presenting detailed information
d. Presenting related
e. Presenting overviews

8. Research approach
● Information gathering
○ Data analysis
○ Scenario creation
○ Focus group discussions
● Interface requirements
● Interface design 1
● Interface evaluation 1
● Interface design 2
● Interface evaluation 2

9. Questions?