Location-Based Digital Story Personalization via User Profile Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies for providing personalized travel experiences through mobile devices lack the ability to seamlessly integrate location-specific digital stories that continue a common theme across multiple geographic locations, failing to adapt to user preferences and travel directions effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that store user profiles and location-specific digital stories, determining the user's current location and providing appropriate digital stories based on their profile, preferences, and travel directions, with the option to capture and incorporate user images into photo products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If location-aware travel guides provide comprehensive information at all locations, then information completeness is improved, but information relevance to user preferences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system tailors the information provided at each location to the specific user's preferences, travel directions, and previously visited locations. Instead of providing uniform comprehensive information to all users at all locations, the system selectively provides information that is locally relevant to each user's context and preferences, thereby maintaining information completeness while improving relevance through personalized filtering and selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user profiles, preferences, and travel directions before providing location-specific information. By pre-processing user data and determining relevant themes and locations in advance, the system can efficiently deliver personalized information without compromising completeness, as the comprehensive data is already organized and filtered according to user-specific criteria.
2Quantity of substance
If the system provides all location-specific digital stories to users, then content availability is improved, but user engagement and personalization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a curated subset of location-specific digital stories that are most relevant to each user based on their preferences and travel directions, rather than presenting all available content. This partial action approach maintains content availability by having the full library accessible, while improving user engagement by selectively presenting only the most relevant stories, thereby avoiding information overload and enhancing personalization.
3Measurement precision
If the system tracks user location and viewing history across multiple locations, then personalization accuracy is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces intermediary components such as user profiles that store preferences and viewing histories, and location tracking mechanisms that mediate between raw location data and personalization logic. These intermediaries organize and structure the data flow, making the tracking and personalization processes more manageable and less complex while maintaining high personalization accuracy across multiple locations.
4Stability of the object's composition
If the system provides seamless theme continuation across locations, then user experience coherence is improved, but computational requirements deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user preferences and travel directions to pre-determine which themes should continue across which locations. By pre-processing and organizing theme information according to user-specific criteria before the user actually visits locations, the system reduces computational requirements during real-time operation while maintaining seamless theme continuation and experience coherence across multiple locations.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are, among other things, systems and methods for providing location-based digital stories to a user of processing a device system, such as a mobile device. In some embodiments, a user profile associated with the user and data indicating a plurality of location-specific digital stories related to a common theme at a plurality of locations may be stored. A processing device system may be configured to determine a current location of the mobile device and to provide a first or second digital story to the mobile device based on an analysis of the stored user profile and the current location.