Route Generation Integrating Activity Goals With Transportation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current personal activity trackers and map applications do not integrate users' specific activity level goals and performance with transportation directions across multiple modes of transportation, failing to optimize exercise and transport efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates routes based on users' transportation-related preferences, including activity level goals and monitored performance, which are calculated using map data and sensor information to provide segments with corresponding activity values, facilitating the integration of recommended exercise with transportation directions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If fitness-related applications track user activity levels and provide exercise recommendations, then user activity monitoring capability is improved, but transportation direction functionality is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines fitness tracking functionality with map and transportation direction capabilities into a single integrated application. The system merges activity level monitoring, exercise recommendations, and route calculation by combining multiple data sources including map data, sensor data from wearable devices, and user profile information to provide unified guidance that incorporates both fitness and navigation aspects.
Solution Approach 2:
The application is designed to perform multiple functions: it tracks user activity levels, provides exercise recommendations, calculates transportation routes, and integrates these functions to offer personalized routing that considers both navigation efficiency and fitness goals. This multi-functional approach allows a single application to serve both fitness tracking and transportation direction needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If map applications provide transportation directions for multiple modes of transportation, then route calculation capability is improved, but user-specific activity level information is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system customizes route recommendations based on individual user characteristics by incorporating personal activity level goals, monitored performance data, and user-specific preferences. Each user receives personalized routing information tailored to their specific fitness targets and activity capabilities rather than generic transportation directions.
Solution Approach 2:
The application pre-calculates activity values for different transportation segments based on user profile information, activity goals, and historical performance data before the user actually travels. This allows the system to provide personalized activity level information and route recommendations in advance, rather than providing generic transportation options.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system integrates user activity goals with transportation directions, then personalization of exercise recommendations is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary processing layer that integrates data from multiple sources including map data, sensor data from wearable devices, user profile information, and activity level goals. This intermediary layer processes and synthesizes the various data inputs to generate personalized route recommendations without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components.
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment provides a system for facilitating integration of recommended exercise with transportation directions. During operation, the system generates, by a mobile computing device associated with a user, a request for a route from a start location to a destination location. The system determines one or more of the user's transportation-related preferences, which include the user's activity level goal. The system monitors the user's activity requirement. The system receives the route, which includes one or more segments, wherein a segment indicates a transportation type and a corresponding activity value, wherein the route is calculated based on the transportation-related preferences and the monitored activity requirement, thereby facilitating integration of recommended exercise with transportation directions.