Investigation on Impression of Streetscape toward Traveling Route Recommendation Considering User Experience

This paper investigates the impression of streetscapes users receive from street view movies. In travel recommendation, travelers do not only want to reach the destination, but also want to enjoy streetscapes throughout the journey. While traditional route recommendation systems tend to focus on how to get users to the destination faster, we think routes to the destination should be determined considering user experience on the route. To consider such a user experience, the lack of actual route conditions due to 2D maps is also a problem of the traditional route recommendation systems. Therefore, we are developing a recommendation system that can provide street view movies of the recommended routes. As the preliminary investigation for realizing the system, this paper compares the impression users receive from street view movies and that from 2D map. The results show that even while presenting information of the same route with 2D Map and Street view, users still receive the different impressions.