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End-User Development in Tourism Promotion for Small Towns

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This paper discusses the design and implementation of a system for promoting small towns based on the mash-up of various data sources for personalized mobile access. The positive issues and the open problems are discussed and evaluated in the frame of an experiment made in a region in Northern Italy.

Project supported by Regione Veneto, Italy, under the FSE programme.

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Celentano, A., Maurizio, M., Pattanaro, G., van der Borg, J. (2013). End-User Development in Tourism Promotion for Small Towns. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A., Redmiles, D. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_18

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