Recommendation System for Planning Leisure in Quarantine Conditions

Abstract

The work is devoted to research on the problem of management and organization of free time during the period of forced stay at home by means of information technologies. The paper describes the problems during quarantine restrictions and how this affects the psycho- emotional health of the person. The need to adapt and modify the usual forms of leisure activity to the new format has been determined. The most famous modern information systems, providing entertainment services are narrow-purpose systems. They generate recommendations related to media services. Methods of providing recommendations have been studied. A tree of goals was built to solve the problem situation. Alternative means of implementation of the information system are considered. Using the method of the hierarchical analysis, the optimal system type of implementation of the proposed solution is chosen – the recommendation system. The algorithm of work of the recommendation system of free time during the period of forced stay at home is described. The mechanism of weight optimization in the weighted hybrid recommendation algorithm was used to provide recommendations. When a user's portrait is created, the method of the personality type indicator is used. Using the UML language tools, a conceptual system model has been designed. For realization of the prototype of a mobile application of the system language programming Java, JavaScript, frame react Native is chosen. To work with the database the MySQL database management system has been selected. An example of using the system as a mobile application is given. The main stages of interaction of the user with the recommended system of free time during the period of forced stay at home are described. The work of the recommendation system is aimed at mitigating the negative consequences on the psycho-emotional state of a person who is in the conditions of forced quarantine. The special feature of the recommendations of the developed prototype is to offer, in addition to passive activities, active actions that take into account the peculiarities of each user. Application of the system is not limited only to quarantine. The services of the system will be appropriate for people with disabilities, in the case of physical injury transfer or liquidation, which led to temporary immobility.