Itinerary Recommendation for Cruises: User Study

Recommandation d'itinéraire au bord d'une croisière : étude utilisateurs

Diana Nurbakova (1) , Léa Laporte (1) , Sylvie Calabretto (1) , Jérôme Gensel (2)

1 DRIM - Distribution, Recherche d'Information et Mobilité
2 STEAMER - Spatio-temporal information systems

Vacations and leisure activities constitute an important part of human life. Nowadays, a lot of attention is paid to cruising, that is reported to be a favourite vacation choice for families with kids and for Millenials. Like other distributed events (events that gather multiple activities distributed in space and time under one umbrella) such as big festivals, conventions, conferences etc., cruises offer a vast variety of simultaneous on-board activities for all ages and tastes. This results in a cruiser's information overload, in particular given a very limited availability of activities. Recommender systems appear as a desirable solution in such an environment. Due to the number of time constraints, it is more convenient to get a personalised itinerary of activities rather than a list of top-n. In this paper, we present a user study conducted in order to create a preliminary dataset that simulates users' attendance of a cruise and sheds the light on the activity selection behaviour. We discuss challenges faced by the itinerary recommendation and illustrate them with user study examples.

Mots clés: recommendation of leisure activities; itinerary recommendation

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]

Diana Nurbakova, Léa Laporte, Sylvie Calabretto, Jérôme Gensel. Itinerary Recommendation for Cruises: User Study. RecTour 2017: 2nd Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism, Aug 2017, Como, Italy. pp.31-34. ⟨hal-01577228⟩