Personalizing routes

  • Authors:
  • Kayur Patel;Mike Y. Chen;Ian Smith;James A. Landay

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA;Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • UIST '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Navigation services (e.g., in-car navigation systems and online mapping sites) compute routes between two locations to help users navigate. However, these routes may direct users along an unfamiliar path when a familiar path exists, or, conversely, may include redundant information that the user already knows. These overly complicated directions increase the cognitive load of the user, which may lead to a dangerous driving environment. Since the level of detail is user specific and depends on their familiarity with a region, routes need to be personalized. We have developed a system, called MyRoute, that reduces route complexity by creating user specific routes based on a priori knowledge of familiar routes and landmarks. MyRoute works by compressing well known steps into a single contextualized step and rerouting users along familiar routes.