Application Requirements

  • Android phone with OS 2.3.3 or higher installed

Accessing Prototype

The easiest way to install our app is to scan this barcode with your phone: 

Otherwise, navigate your phone's browser to the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/torchApp

The application should automatically download. Once the download is complete, select the Torch.apk file from the notifications pull-down to install.

Starting Prototype

To start the application, go to the list of applications installed on your phone and click on the app called Torch.

Shallow Parts of Prototype

  1. When the user creates a tour and saves it, this saved tour is not added to our database of tours.
  2. There is no current way to add landmarks.
  3. It shows the user the path between landmarks and gives you your location but doesn't give any specific driving or walking directions. 
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4 Comments

  1. Unknown User (vsun@mit.edu)

    torch evaluation :)

  2. Isabella S Lubin

    Overall it's a great app and I had a lot of fun evaluating it! Evaluation

  3. Unknown User (d_chang@mit.edu)

    Torch Heuristic Evaluation

  4. Edward Oscar Benson

    Very nice work. Comments below -- I think we hit on all these when we met:

    "Wiki presentation
    : Very easy to use; clear instructions
    Fidelity: Excellent work.
    Usability: Nice work. The ""Map View"" and ""List View"" seem to be misnamed. It seems like these modes are really ""Select Landmarks"" and ""View Landmarks"". Like we talked about, some form of instruction to the user is necessary, since this is a new kind of tour finding app -- the ""Toast"" method works. The same method could be applied when the user starts a tour -- basic orientation (like how to reorder, etc).
    "