FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Context-aware Location-based Guidance System
Suggested By: Maiga Chang
Last Update: March 19th, 2025

This research can be taken by either Essay, Project, or Thesis route student. For Essay student, an in-depth and comprehensive literature review, summarization, discussion and pros and cons analysis on relevant methodologies and algorithms are needed. Furthermore, essay student needs to proposed and design his or her own solution framework, method and algorithm, and workflow and use mocked/simulated dataset and scenarios to explain and prove the proposed work is valid. For Project and Thesis student, the research work needs to be implemented besides doing all the tasks described above. The project outcome will be examined by well-designed experiment for quanititative and qualitative data analysis (for Thesis route student) and pilot testing for usability and technology acceptance analysis (for both Thesis and Project students).         There are many car-guidance systems around world. This topic mainly focus how to provide travelers and/or learners a series guidance messages in order to lead them getting where they want and/or need to go. The major issues are to make to system "realizes" the context which travelers and/or learners may encounter during movement, find suitable targets as landmarks which can be used in leading travelers and/or learners. Even the system can "recognize" the context and pick the suitable tagets up as landmarks, the guidance system should consider many issues: the shortest path issue, the object shaping issue, the no-trespassing object issue, and the visibility issue.