DangerMaps: Personalized Safety Advice for Travel in Urban Environments using a Retrieval-Augmented Language Model
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| author | Oppenlaender, Jonas |
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| contents | Planning a trip into a potentially unsafe area is a difficult task. We conducted a formative study on travelers' information needs, finding that most of them turn to search engines for trip planning. Search engines, however, fail to provide easily interpretable results adapted to the context and personal information needs of a traveler. Large language models (LLMs) create new possibilities for providing personalized travel safety advice. To explore this idea, we developed DangerMaps, a mapping system that assists its users in researching the safety of an urban travel destination, whether it is pre-travel or on-location. DangerMaps plots safety ratings onto a map and provides explanations on demand. This late breaking work specifically emphasizes the challenges of designing real-world applications with large language models. We provide a detailed description of our approach to prompt design and highlight future areas of research. |
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| spellingShingle | DangerMaps: Personalized Safety Advice for Travel in Urban Environments using a Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Oppenlaender, Jonas Human-Computer Interaction H.5.m Planning a trip into a potentially unsafe area is a difficult task. We conducted a formative study on travelers' information needs, finding that most of them turn to search engines for trip planning. Search engines, however, fail to provide easily interpretable results adapted to the context and personal information needs of a traveler. Large language models (LLMs) create new possibilities for providing personalized travel safety advice. To explore this idea, we developed DangerMaps, a mapping system that assists its users in researching the safety of an urban travel destination, whether it is pre-travel or on-location. DangerMaps plots safety ratings onto a map and provides explanations on demand. This late breaking work specifically emphasizes the challenges of designing real-world applications with large language models. We provide a detailed description of our approach to prompt design and highlight future areas of research. |
| title | DangerMaps: Personalized Safety Advice for Travel in Urban Environments using a Retrieval-Augmented Language Model |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction H.5.m |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14103 |