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An Opportunistic Tourism Navigation System using Photography Location Recommendation

Authors:
Hiroya Sakaguchi
Tomoko Izumi
Yoshio Nakatani

Keywords: Tourism Navigation System, Opportunistic Planning, Benefit of Inconvenient, Photography Location

Abstract:
In recent years, a style of sightseeing, which is planned by individuals and focuses on strolling has become widespread, while sightseeing navigation systems have attracted attention. However, most existing navigation systems support efficient sightseeing by giving users information such as the shortest route to their destination. Accordingly in this research, we propose an opportunistic sightseeing navigation system, which navigates users to a destination while recommending some photography locations that exist on the way to the destination, and adapts to the users’ moods. An evaluation experiment conducted in Kyoto, Japan, demonstrated that conducting casual sightseeing on foot using this system enabled opportunistic sightseeing suited to the users’ moods, which led to user enjoyment.

Pages: 61 to 66

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-306-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013