ottomotion - a cyber-phyiscal network for sports

New IT technology allows for new methods of planning urban development. otto-motion focuses on urban planning and development of sporting activities. In this projects researchers and experts from sports, data mining and systems engineering together develop tools and methods for increasing sportive activities among the citizens of Magdeburg. One focus will be mobile information technology. The core idea is to bring together motivating factors well-known from social networks with real sport activities. The underlying technologies include Web 2.0 methods and mobile (smartphone-based) assistants. These can for example help predicting when and where to meet friends at any sport activity. In parallel modern data mining and knowledge engineering methods will be used, to find out where to build which type of sport facilities.