When we use a smartphone as we move about, we see our surroundings in a different way, adopting new practices to combine physical exploration of place with digital navigation on the Web. This article seeks to identify how consulting digital information as we go along modifies our behaviour. Specifically, we will focus on the use of a mobile application dedicated to the presentation of a tourist site. Our exploratory study is based on a comparison of two groups of visitors: the first group was provided with a printed tourist guide, and the second had the same guide plus a smartphone with a tourist guide application. For the purposes of comparison, the visitors were followed step by step (their movements were tracked by GPS) and click by click (the application recorded the user’s browsing history). At the end of the tour, participants were also invited to comment on their experience, in semi-structured interviews. The results of the study suggest that the use of a smartphone while sightseeing modifies significantly our walking pace, the number of halts and slowdowns we make, and also the type of circuit we follow. Using the smartphone leads visitors to follow more carefully the itinerary proposed and, as a result, to explore the world with greater application

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使用移动应用程序如何改变观光游览的过程？步调，凝视和信息处理问题

当我们在移动中使用智能手机时，我们会以不同的方式看到周围的环境，并采用新的做法将对地点的物理探索与网络上的数字导航相结合。本文旨在确定我们在进行数字信息咨询时如何改变我们的行为。具体来说，我们将专注于专用于展示旅游景点的移动应用程序的使用。我们的探索性研究基于对两组游客的比较：第一组提供了印刷的导游，第二组提供了相同的导游，加上带有导游应用程序的智能手机。为了进行比较，将逐步跟踪访问者（通过GPS跟踪他们的运动），然后单击单击（应用程序记录了用户的浏览历史记录）。游览结束时，还邀请参与者在半结构化访谈中对他们的经历发表评论。研究结果表明，观光时使用智能手机会大大改变我们的步行速度，停顿和减速的次数，以及我们遵循的电路类型。使用智能手机会引导游客更仔细地遵循建议的行程，从而通过更多应用程序探索世界