Visiting destination prediction device and visiting destination prediction method

A visiting destination prediction device comprising circuitry configured to:

• acquire user position information indicating a position of a user;
• derive a stationary position of the user on the basis of the acquired user position information;
• and
• estimate a visiting POI which is a visiting destination of the user on the basis of a relationship between the derived stationary position of the user and a predetermined POI position of a POI which is able to be the visiting destination of the user,
• wherein the circuitry is configured to derive the stationary position which is expressed by an area on the basis of an error and a degree of dispersion of a series of pieces of the acquired user position information, and
• wherein the circuitry is configured to:
• acquire a stationary point center position from the series of pieces of the acquired user position information through a predetermined averaging process;
• calculate a weighted average of distances between areas associated with positioning points and the stationary point center position when a positioning point acquired from one piece of user position information is defined as a first area which is acquired by extending a point which is indicated by the user position information by the error of the user position information north and south in the latitude direction and extending the point by the error east and west in the longitude direction;
• and
• derive a second area which is acquired by extending the stationary point center position by a width correlated with the weighted average north and south in the latitude direction and extending the stationary point center position by the width east and west in the longitude direction as the stationary position.