Manuel Ortega Cordovilla, Sergio Garrido Merino, Crescencio Bravo Santos, Ana Isabel Molina Díaz, Manuel Ortega Cantero
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This paper presents Excursiona, an application that provides substantial value to group excursions. Excursiona promotes collaboration and awareness during the excursion, as the group members navigate the map. Moreover, users can share pictures of interesting points they discover and interact in the chat room. The application has great potential in fields that benefit from outdoor collaboration, with application cases on children with special needs or firefighters. Regarding the technological approach, Excursiona has been developed in Flutter, making it compatible with iOS and Android operating systems, which along other technological tools has enhanced the possibilities of the project. Finally, an evaluation with users has allowed the testing of the system and the evaluation of the collaborative and awareness features.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.
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