Context-aware In-flight Entertainment System

Air travel, especially long distance, expose passengers a number of factors that may cause them both physiological and psychological discomfort and even stress. In-flight entertainment system is commonly installed on the long-haul aircraft to improve the passenger’s satisfaction level. However, the current installed and commercially available in-flight entertainment systems do not fully explore how the entertainment services can be used to improve the passenger’s comfort level physically and psychologically. Also these systems are user adaptive systems where the user is supposed to initiate the system adaptation to get personalized entertainment services. In this paper we present a new context-aware system for personalized stress free in-flight entertainment service provision. It can intelligently provide the passenger preferred stress reduction entertainment services based on his/her personal demographic information, activity, physical and psychological states if the passenger was in stress.