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Follow the pioneers: towards personalized crowd-sourced route generation for mountaineers

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Florian Daiber,

Felix Kosmalla,

Frederik Wiehr,

Antonio KrügerAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 1051 - 1055

https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3124447

Published: 11 September 2017 Publication History

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Wearable sports technology such as fitness trackers or smart watches has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, resulting in a vast collection of recorded routes. This technology now enables new forms of tracking and sharing outdoor adventures, that go beyond prosaic descriptions and photographs of the tour. Existing web mapping services and online tour diaries already allow mountaineers an improved preparation of tours but it remains still a time-consuming and cumbersome task. In this paper we introduce the concept of pioneers in outdoor activities. The proposed concept lets people define their pioneers, which are other ambitious athletes who are well known and trusted experts of the area. Using the segments of their tracks and other personal preferences (e.g. length, elevation and difficulty) a personalized route that is based on the pioneers' activities is generated and recommended to the user.

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Postma DKarahanoğlu Avan Delden RReidsma D(2023)The Cost of Reward: A Critical Reflection on the `What', `How', and `Why' of Gamification for Motivation in SportsCompanion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3573382.3616102(222-224)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573382.3616102

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Follow the pioneers: towards personalized crowd-sourced route generation for mountaineers
1. Human-centered computing

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UbiComp '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

September 2017

1089 pages

ISBN:9781450351904

DOI:10.1145/3123024

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Postma DKarahanoğlu Avan Delden RReidsma D(2023)The Cost of Reward: A Critical Reflection on the `What', `How', and `Why' of Gamification for Motivation in SportsCompanion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3573382.3616102(222-224)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573382.3616102

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