A Preliminary Study on Requirement of Smart Tour Guide Application Using Augmented Reality

Travelling is one of the most popular activity among people. With the advancement of technology nowadays, there are many applications that has been implemented to support the traveler such as smart tour guide system. Smart tour guide is a system which used to guide and give information about the tourism spot to tourist or traveler. As for current Augmented Reality (AR) application has been implemented in tourism to provide some historical or cultural information through text, picture or even virtual object form. Although the existing application is good enough for tourist usage, however there are some improvement that can be done to increase the efficiency and user interactivity, decrease the task and time spend for the trip. Therefore, this research gathered the requirement of the smart tour guide application with AR. This study gathered the requirement through preliminary study and survey result conducted in UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia comprises of 28 female and 22 male respondents with 39 respondents in the age of 18-23 years old, 9 people in 24-29 years old and 2 people are in 30-35 years old. The result shows although the existing application such as Google Map, Waze, Trip Advisor, and Klook satisfy most of the traveler respondents, the respondents still requires different application to support their trip especially for providing navigation and tour search services. As the result of the survey and preliminary study, most of participants prefer to have smart tour guide application with AR.