Real-time recording and updating of personal journeys via ubiquitous computing technologies

Managing personal travels is a desirable, yet tedious work. In this chapter, we introduce an intelligent travel book management system. With this system, the user can easily handle multimedia information during a journey, including recording the real experience and updating the travel route according to instant-fetched shared information from other users. The multimedia information includes photos, audios, videos, and notes taken during the journey. All the information can contain location information. Agent and mobile computing technologies are used to implement the system. The user would be able to use the system to record and update his or her personal journey in a ubiquitous manner through a mobile device, like a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a smart phone. Thus ubiquitous management of traveling records and plans becomes feasible.