e-Turist: An Intelligent Personalised Trip Guide

Authors

  • Božidara Cvetković Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems
  • Hristijan Gjoreski Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems
  • Vito Janko
  • Boštjan Kaluža Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems
  • Anton Gradišek Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems
  • Igor Jurinčič
  • Anton Gosar
  • Simon Kerma
  • Gregor Balažič
  • Mitja Luštrek Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems

Abstract

We present e-Turist, an intelligent system that helps tourists plan a personalised itinerary to a tourist area, taking into account individual’s preferences and limitations. After creating the route, e-Turist also offers real-time GPS guidance and audio description of points of interest visited. Here we focus on two main components, the recommender system and the route planning algorithm. We also present some use cases to highlight e-Turist functionalities in different configurations. 

Author Biographies

Hristijan Gjoreski, Institut "Jožef Stefan" Department of Intelligent Systems

Institut "Jožef Stefan"Department of Intelligent Systems

Vito Janko

Institut "Jožef Stefan"Department of Intelligent Systems

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Published

2016-12-08

How to Cite

Cvetković, B., Gjoreski, H., Janko, V., Kaluža, B., Gradišek, A., Jurinčič, I., … Luštrek, M. (2016). e-Turist: An Intelligent Personalised Trip Guide. Informatica, 40(4). Retrieved from https://puffbird.ijs.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/1385

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2016)

Section

Regular papers

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