Socially distant seating arrangement management

A data processing system adapted for socially distant seating arrangement management, the system comprising:

• a host computing platform comprising one or more computers, each comprising memory and at least one processor;
• and,
• a socially distant seating arrangement management module comprising computer program instructions enabled while executing in the host computing platform to perform:
• loading a seating chart for a seating area of an event venue into memory of a computer;
• setting both a social distancing parameter and a seat width parameter for seats in the seating area;
• computing in the memory of the computer, a number of successive seats with a combined width according to the seat width parameter minimally exceeding the social distancing parameter;
• enabling for selection in a user interface to the seating chart, available ones of the seats in a selected row of the seating area that are separated from one another by the computed number of the seats and disabling from selection in the user interface, the seats separating the available ones of the seats;
• and,
• recording in the memory of the computer, different selections in the seating chart by different end users of the available ones of the seats.

A computer program product for socially distant seating arrangement management, the computer program product including a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method including:

• loading a seating chart for a seating area of an event venue into memory of a computer;
• setting both a social distancing parameter and a seat width parameter for seats in the seating area;
• computing in the memory of the computer, a number of successive seats with a combined width according to the seat width parameter minimally exceeding the social distancing parameter;
• enabling for selection in a user interface to the seating chart, available ones of the seats in a selected row of the seating area that are separated from one another by the computed number of the seats and disabling from selection in the user interface, the seats separating the available ones of the seats;
• and,
• recording in the memory of the computer, different selections in the seating chart by different end users of the available ones of the seats.