Cascading Information for Ubiqitous Mobility Assistance

摘要

Over the last years, personal mobility has become both more prominent and more diverse. Because of the complex structure of today's transport networks, an electronic guidance is effectively required. Usually different transport modalities and service providers offer their own mobile application to which the traveler has to adapt after changing between services. Additionally a current trend in mobile applications is the customization of GUI elements which leads to appealing looks but usually also to cluttered presentation of information. Both these problems cause a high cognitive stress on the traveler using the mobile application, especially while conducting other activities at the same time. Our approach to mitigate these issues is to create a mobile application applying the principle Cascading Information Theory to simplify the usage. A prototype of the application was evaluated in an user test for comparing our approach to the most popular mobile travel application in Germany.