Software Architecture Group
Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld
Tours and Traps
places • people • the world
Context-aware applications extend the reach of mobile users. The availability of current traffic information helps to avoid harmful to life-threatening situations. Convenient support for planning and enjoying sightseeing tours makes sharing impressions easy and fun.
Concept
- Personalized location-based information
- Collected by individuals
- Shared with the community
- Accessible everywhere anytime
- Provided through different media
- Community
- Federated content creation
- Collective evaluation and maintenance
Infrastructure
- Mobile devices
- Make location specific services available
- Use global positioning systems to determine location and proximity
- Present personalized and situation-specific information
- Web-based applications
- Content collection, syndication, propagation, and sharing
- Instant updates
- Community portals
Sightseeing service
- Tour planning
- Creation, selection, or modification of tour plans
- Collaborative planning
- En-route assistance
- Tour guidance
- Tour plan adaptation
- Multimedia annotations of on-tour impressions
- Follow up
- Travel diaries
- Photo albums
- Updated tour plans
Traffic service
- Broadcasting of danger spots
- Marking and reporting of traffic jams
- Consolidation of similar or identical reports
- Maintenance of data history (aging, predictions)
- Notification and visualization
- Proximity alerts
- Forecasts based on historical data
- Local radio stations and traffic blogs
- Map-based presentation of relevant traffic information
Partners and participants
DoCoMo Euro-Labs Munich
Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam
- Peter Osburg
- Stefan Berger
- Dominic Letz
- Thomas Kowark
- Martin Beck
- Michael Perscheid
- David Tibbe
- Gregor Gabrysiak
- Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld
- Dr. Michael Haupt
Podcast
tnt.rss | in German (13.1 MB) | in English (12.8 MB)
Photos
bp2006h1 (on flickr)
