Socializing Public Transportation - Using Situational Context in Public Transportation to Get in Touch with People Around You

Roman Roor, Olga Birth, Michael Karg, Markus Strassberger

2015

Abstract

Unexpected delays or long traveling times lead often to people who get bored while using public transport. Whereas some might use their travel time for work or even enjoy the silence, there are still many people that would welcome an opportunity to use the spatio-temporal proximity to get to know others or meet with friends that are in the same train. This paper introduces a novel, smartphone based concept to bring people together while using or waiting for public transport. Based on location and personal preferences, suggestions can be made for getting in touch with nearby persons. We propose a recommendation system, which identifies the concrete public transport vehicle and compares the preferences with other users to create recommendations about people nearby who are also traveling in or waiting for a public transport vehicle.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Roor R., Birth O., Karg M. and Strassberger M. (2015). Socializing Public Transportation - Using Situational Context in Public Transportation to Get in Touch with People Around You . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS, ISBN 978-989-758-109-0, pages 113-118. DOI: 10.5220/0005492201130118

in Bibtex Style

@conference{vehits15,
author={Roman Roor and Olga Birth and Michael Karg and Markus Strassberger},
title={Socializing Public Transportation - Using Situational Context in Public Transportation to Get in Touch with People Around You},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,},
year={2015},
pages={113-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005492201130118},
isbn={978-989-758-109-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,
TI - Socializing Public Transportation - Using Situational Context in Public Transportation to Get in Touch with People Around You
SN - 978-989-758-109-0
AU - Roor R.
AU - Birth O.
AU - Karg M.
AU - Strassberger M.
PY - 2015
SP - 113
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0005492201130118