Abstract
While digital map and navigation applications provide useful assistance when a user is driving, the user needs to explicitly seek guidance from these applications. If the user chooses to drive without assistance, the user may miss out on useful information such as congestion alerts, faster alternative routes, etc. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to automatically detect a driving context and proactively surface useful notifications. The driving context can be detected based on analyzing connection type and name associated with Bluetooth connections established by a mobile device that runs the navigation application. Additional user-permitted factors such as current location, locations visited in the past, etc. can be used to predict a likely destination. When driving context is detected, the navigation application can provide useful notifications to the user.
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Recommended Citation
Levin, Ilya; Aidelman, Yarin; Orlovsky, Arie; Abramov, Or; and Besor, Itamar, "Automatically Surfacing Navigation Assistance in Driving Contexts", Technical Disclosure Commons, (April 02, 2025)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7958