Encouraging System towards Severe Slope Way for Nervous Tourists

Recently, tourism contents concerning a slope way has attracted lots of attention. A severe slope way has significant risk for tourists to abort their plan because of avoiding to be tired. However, its solution is not fully developed. In Post-Covid (Coronavirus disease) -19 environment, support for tourism in an actual field could become imperative again. Therefore, the present paper develops and evaluates a system to reduce the above-mentioned negative factor of a slope way. Concretely, we propose the following three menus in our system: 1) a menu to show some useful or helpful spots existing along a severe slope way, 2) a menu to show how much useful for diet trial based on the gap of two elevations such as the highest and lowest points, and 3) a communication menu to helpful character emerging along a severe slope way. We develop these three menus and provide tourists with positive factors derived from walking a slope way. It also brings some novel values of a severe slope way walking. We have evaluated our pilot system by the following two method: (1) evaluation experiment with some subjects, and (2) interviews to tourism professionals. Both of their results shows that our system would be useful in order to encourage nervous tourists towards a severe slope way.