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Design of trustworthy smartphone-based multimedia services in cultural environments

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Smartphone is a dynamic new media that faces high popularity due to its versatile services and the friendliness of its usage. It can be used in many activities of everyday life from e-commerce to e-tourism. In this work, we study smartphone’s secure usability in cultural heritage sites and environments. Our goal is to make a first attempt towards a trustworthy commercial multimedia guiding system targeting cultural sites that will be executed in a set of smartphones. More specifically, we are interested in how the needs of curators and visitors, experts or not, of a cultural heritage site can be facilitated by the provided multimedia guiding services of smartphones employing trustworthy implementations of smartphone services that are controlled by a central server. Furthermore, we make an attempt to propose a simple business model for the commercial exploitation of such services.

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  1. Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Western Greece, George Seferi Str. 2, 30100, Agrinio, Greece

    Dimitrios Koukopoulos & Georgios Styliaras

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Part of this work has been appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES’11), pp. 604–608, IEEE Computer Press, Shanghai, China, 2011.

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Koukopoulos, D., Styliaras, G. Design of trustworthy smartphone-based multimedia services in cultural environments. Electron Commer Res 13, 129–150 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-013-9112-5

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