Local Linda has a friend from high school visiting her at college. She wants to show her friend around the city, but hasn’t done many of the “touristy” things herself. Linda uses Torch to find a good walking tour that hits many landmarks and they follow it over the course of the day. At the end of the day, Linda decides that there were a few landmarks that would have been better-suited for the tour, and creates her own.

Ways to find a tour

• Map displaying landmarks that the user can include & list of tours (clicking would go to map)
• Map displaying landmarks that a user can include, auto-generate tour based on that
• Map displaying possible tour routes & filter using a list of landmarks with checkboxes
• Some way to do search/filtering (slide-down, parameter search, etc).

Ways to follow a tour

•  Map view with current location and a route to follow (like an iPhone)
• Show you a picture of the next landmark with description, direction (like a compass)
• Ordered list of landmarks on the route potentially with a map (landmark #, picture, name) with the step you’re on, perhaps with a small map (like Winphone 7)
• Shows you the next step and then landmarks that are nearby/related/on the way

Ways to create a tour

• Modifying a tour by making changes while following
• Drag your finger in between landmarks on a map
• Drag-and-drop tour ordering
• Adding locations to a database, don’t specify tour route

Storyboard #1 (Lane)

• Map displaying landmarks that the user can include & list of tours that include those landmarks (clicking would go to map)
• Map view with current location and a route to follow (like an iPhone)
• Drag your finger in between landmarks on a map

Storyboard #2 (Aric)

• Map displaying landmarks that a user can include, auto-generate tour based on that
• Shows you the next step and then landmarks that are nearby/related/on the way
• Adding locations to a database, don’t specify tour route

Analysis:

• Learnability
  • Unique icons for each type of location may not be implicit.
  • Finding detailed info by clicking on icons shown on map may not be obvious.
  • Ambiguity on "type" of location (Is a bar recreation or restaurant?).
  • Map areas behave as expected (no additional learning if already familiar).
• Efficiency
  • User cannot see selected locations while choosing additional ones.
  • User cannot get an estimate on time/distance until all locations have been chosen.
  • Several different screens to navigate to add a location (home page -> map page -> location page).
  • Using map in substitute of address input saves time (starting spot, new location)
  • Hard to add a specific place if it isn't on the map (have to go to the "advanced search" page).
• Safety
  • Requires several deliberate button presses to add an event (good for error prevention)
  • Easy to remove unwanted locations
  • Directions to locations are not very detailed (just show the map, leaving potential for user to get lost).

Storyboard #3 (Ryan)

• Map displaying possible tour routes & filter using a list of landmarks with checkboxes
• Show you a picture of the next landmark with description, direction (like a compass)
• Modifying a tour by making changes while following

Storyboard #4 (Denzil)

• Some way to do search/filtering (slide-down, parameter search, etc).
• Ordered list of landmarks on the route potentially with a map (landmark #, picture, name) with the step you’re on, perhaps with a small map (like Winphone 7)
• Drag-and-drop tour ordering