Tell me where to go and what to do next, but do not bother me

  • Hongwei Liu*
  • , Gang Wu
  • , Guoren Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this demonstration, we present a system that recommends to the user the locations and activities she/he might be interested in according to history GPS trajectories and public places of interest (POI) data. Its innovation lies in the acceptable performance of recommendations in cases where no user comments on activity types are available. Such situations are more realistic considering the restrictions on mobile devices' abilities, users' privacies, or business secret. For this purpose, we first extract stay points according to uses' trajectories, and label them with the top-k common activities which have the most possibility in terms of the POI dataset. Then, by taking stay points as observations, and activities as hidden states, a Hidden Markov model is built to learn the transfer possibilities between activities and the generation probabilities between activities and stay points. Finally, with the obtained model, our system can perform two types of recommendation, i.e. the history based recommendation and the similarity based recommendation. The results of former type are those stay points from user's own history positions. While, the latter one conducts collaborative filtering by taking history based recommendation results from similar users. The demonstration shows the running effects of the implemented prototype system, in which the Microsoft GeoLife trajectories dataset and the "DianPing.com" POI dataset were loaded. The preliminary experimental results demonstrate the feasibility.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages375-376
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450326681
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2014 - Foster City, United States
Duration: 6 Oct 201410 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameRecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Conference

Conference8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityFoster City
Period6/10/1410/10/14

Keywords

  • Hidden markov model
  • LBS
  • Recommendation

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