Cascading Information for Public Transport Assistance

Christian Samsel, Shirley Beul-Leusmann, Maximilian Wiederhold, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Martina Ziefle, Eva-Maria Jakobs

2014

Abstract

Over the last years, public transport has become both more prominent and more diverse. Because of the complex structure of today’s public transport networks, an electronic guidance is effectively required. Usually different transport modalities and service providers offer their own application to which the traveler has to adapt after changing between services. Additionally a current trend in mobile applications is the customization of GUI elements which leads to appealing looks but usually also to cluttered presentation of information. Both these problems cause a high cognitive stress on the traveler using the mobile application, especially while conducting other activities at the same time. Our approach to mitigate these issues is to create a mobile application applying the Gamification principle Cascading Information Theory to simplify the usage and additionally to use a back-end which allows to integrate data from various services hereby unifiying the presentation. A prototype of the application was evaluated in an initial user test for comparing our approach to the most popular mobile travel application in Germany.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Samsel C., Beul-Leusmann S., Wiederhold M., Krempels K., Ziefle M. and Jakobs E. (2014). Cascading Information for Public Transport Assistance . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-023-9, pages 411-422. DOI: 10.5220/0004793304110422

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist14,
author={Christian Samsel and Shirley Beul-Leusmann and Maximilian Wiederhold and Karl-Heinz Krempels and Martina Ziefle and Eva-Maria Jakobs},
title={Cascading Information for Public Transport Assistance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={411-422},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004793304110422},
isbn={978-989-758-023-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Cascading Information for Public Transport Assistance
SN - 978-989-758-023-9
AU - Samsel C.
AU - Beul-Leusmann S.
AU - Wiederhold M.
AU - Krempels K.
AU - Ziefle M.
AU - Jakobs E.
PY - 2014
SP - 411
EP - 422
DO - 10.5220/0004793304110422