THESIS
2017
xii, 84 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
Abstract
Along with the growth of location-based systems and the Internet, our
behaviors on travel and the interactions with technology have been changing. It is
now easier for people to explore places to visit and book flight tickets or hotels
through various online services. Moreover, most of us use online maps for navigation
when traveling. It gives us attraction suggestions and directions to the places we want
to go to in unfamiliar cities or countries. We believed that there are more
opportunities which can make use of maps, such as utilizing maps as an organization
tool. We recognized that visualization is one of the advantages of maps. It helps our
brains process and analyze the locational information. For instance, if we pin several
points on the map, we can easily recognize the...[
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Along with the growth of location-based systems and the Internet, our
behaviors on travel and the interactions with technology have been changing. It is
now easier for people to explore places to visit and book flight tickets or hotels
through various online services. Moreover, most of us use online maps for navigation
when traveling. It gives us attraction suggestions and directions to the places we want
to go to in unfamiliar cities or countries. We believed that there are more
opportunities which can make use of maps, such as utilizing maps as an organization
tool. We recognized that visualization is one of the advantages of maps. It helps our
brains process and analyze the locational information. For instance, if we pin several
points on the map, we can easily recognize the distribution of these points and
arrange them in the same day without going through the traveling time between each
location.
We proposed a metaphor "Map is a group of bookmarked locations" in order
to help people organize travel information. We intended to build integration over trip
planning and provide a valuable user experience. Therefore, we interviewed 22
millennials from Hong Kong who love traveling to understand their trip planning and
travel experience. Based on our studies, we found a group of human behavior in travel planning and then designed a travel planner integrated with several familiar
tools and user interfaces of document editor and map on one platform. Our research
also investigated how users interacted with the design prototype and included a few
suggestions on building a solution with seamless user experience throughout travel
planning.
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