Humans are a key part of software development, including customers, designers, coders,
testers and end users. In this keynote talk I explain why incorporating human-centric issues …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in travel applications that provide on-site
personalized tourist spot recommendations. While generally helpful, most available options …

Developing tools to understand and visualize lifestyle is of high interest when addressing
the improvement of habits and well-being of people. Routine, defined as the usual things …

Itinerary planning is one of the most important tasks in tourism. A well-planned itinerary
enhances the tourist experience and their visit satisfaction in new cities. However, the task of …

Tour planning and recommendation is an important but tedious task for tourists visiting
unfamiliar cities and places. While there are various personalized tour recommendation …

The focus of this paper is a novel pedagogical planner that we have developed called the
CFLS planner (Collaborative Filtering based on Learning Sequences). The CFLS planner …

Owing to the increasing popularity of mobile devices embedded with a Global Positioning
System (GPS) sensor, large amounts of user-generated content containing spatial …

The heavy traffic and related issues have always been concerns for modern cities. With the
help of deep learning and reinforcement learning, people have proposed various policies to …

Recommending attractive travel itineraries to tourists is a promising application. A well-
known drawback of existing research is the lack of public data for evaluating new …

Numerous contents have been uploaded to social media sites are useful to analyze the
tourist behaviors and recommend other tourist spots. In this paper, we propose a method for …