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- Parents feel concerned about their daughter.
- Sara wants to show parents that she lives in a safe place.
- Wants to show her parents landmarks from her stay so that they can connect together different stories she has told them.
* Breakdowns/Workarounds
- Some images of Sara's trip are available on social networking sites (Facebook), however:
- most of these aren't relevant to the details Sara's parents are interested in.
- hard to establish relationships between pictures if you haven't visited the place; no continuity.
User Groups
Two user groups
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- experience the place where their children/relatives/friends are living
- * recreate the narrative of stories with immersive visual representation
- Person living abroad
Family members:
- Interested in "mundane" details of daily life. (e.g. Is there a park nearby? Which market do you go to?)
Friends:
- Interested in highlights.
Both:
- Want to make a connection between narratives and locations
- ability to share his experience in a visual way
- Tourists
- experience what the tour is going to look like beforehand
- Tour Guides
- ability to better convey the tour experience to prospective tourists