GR1 - Analysis

Problem Statement

Parents and relatives living apart want to get an experience of what it is like to be at a place where their children/relatives live.

It is difficult in the following way:

• It's difficult to communicate
  • what it looks like to walk around Harvard Square
  • how it looks like to jog along Charles river

User Groups

Two user groups

• People back home
  • Parents 
  • Relatives
  • Friends
  • Tourists (planning a tour)
• People living abroad
  • Visitors
  • Students 
  • Professionals
  • Tour Guides

User Goals

Parent, relatives, and friends back home

• experience the place where their children/relatives/friends are living
  • see the landmarks virtually
  • recreate the narrative of stories with immersive visual representation
• Person living abroad
  • ability to share his experience in a visual way
• Tourists
   Tourists
  • experience what the tour is going to look like beforehand
• Tour Guides
  • ability to better convey the tour experience to prospective tourist
• prospective tourist