Survey: Tracking Movement Patterns for Location Based Recommendation

Dear *,

I want to inform you about my survey / experiment for GPS (Global
Positioning System) driven recommendation in a Location Based Services
(LBS) scenario.

This project is related to Location Based Services (LBS) - which
attempt to provide services to users of mobile devices, based upon
their current geographic location (e.g. details of special offers when
someone is near to a particular shop). At present, such recommendations
only take into account the current position of the user, and can often
lead to unwanted and inappropriate recommendations because they are
made independently of other contextual factors. Current PhD research
aims to investigate whether recommendations can be improved by also
using knowledge of users' past movement patterns. Specifically, it
will investigate whether the (regular) geographical movement patterns
of users can be used to influence and inform location-based
recommendations. One of the fundamental issues here is to determine how
regular users' movement patterns actually are. It is this aspect that
the study seeks to investigate.

Please feel free to promote this survey / experiment in the appropriate
places.

Kind regards and thank you very much

Steffen W. Schilke

http://www.network-research-group.org/gps-survey/

Tracking Movement Patterns for Location Based Recommendation

Briefing document for potential participants in the experiment

Steffen W. Schilke
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics
University of Plymouth

Contact: steffen.schilke@plymouth.ac.uk