Online Personal Connection Presentation System for Communication Assistance

With the present technology and environment, we are able to interact with other people using online communities, while sometimes missing the opportunity to meet people in the real world. Location-based services have a strong correlation with the real world, and have the potential to develop online connections into off-line connections. However, most of these location-based services observe only users´ action histories, and have difficulty indentifying each individual, making it difficult to develop such connections. In this paper, we propose “Light Footprint,” which is able to manage users´ past, present, and future locations simultaneously using the unified method, and visualize the information in the real world using a footprint metaphor to solve the problem mentioned before. We show the effectiveness of our proposal by implementing the prototype with the proposed software module and database, and evaluate it by calculating the response time.