Integrating awareness in user oriented route recommendation system

Development of recommendation systems are now gaining importance in variety of fields ranging from multimedia content on web sites to travel guides or online product buying to help and guide users in finding out relevant information from the vast pool of information generated everyday. The research in the area of information retrieval, data mining, marketing or e-commerce shows that integration of contextual information into recommendation system would further improve the efficiency and capability of recommendation system for individual users. In this work the conceptual framework of an user oriented pedestrian navigation system with the capability of integrating context awareness in route recommendation is proposed. A very small pilot study is undertaken to measure the effectiveness of the recommendation system with incorporation of context awareness.