CHIP (Cultural Heritage Itinerary Planner)
CHIP is a new framework that combines a recommender system and a travel planner. It is a powerful tool for travellers, able to provide user-tailored Point of Interest (PoI) recommendations in the context of a touristic territory (e.g., a city or a region), and to plan one or more itineraries built on the recommendation-phase results, while satisfying the travel constraints expressed by the user. CHIP is useful for tourists who want to optimize their time and to visit multiple attractions efficiently. It is being developed in the scope of RASTA (Realtà Aumentata e Storytelling Automatizzato), a broader MUR Italian project aimed at the promotion of the territory and cultural heritage through the use of advanced technologies to develop personalised user experiences.
CHIP is also equipped with an interactive visual analytics system, called VA-CHIP, which can be used by policymakers for exploring the relations between Points of Interests and Topics of Interest (ToIs) from several perspectives. It provides a suite of coordinated multiple views, including a semantic similarity network, a dimensionality-reduction-based visualization, and a geographic view.
See also the
ufficial web site of the RASTA project.
