Initial Designs

Point of View:

Arjun is a 40 years old father living in Mumbai, India whose son Raj hose son Raj is a working professional recently moved to San Francisco.

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Arjun wants to recreate the narratives of his son's stories

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and better understand the place where his son lives.

Scenario:

Raj talks to Arjun nearly every day using Skype. During these conversations, Raj tells Arjun interesting stories:

Driving

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Scenario:

his son tells him interesting stories (some sample stories below)** his son told him how amazing it was to drive to LA from SFO through Highway 1 along the pacific coast
a story about his son's hiking to glacier point (Yesomite)
a story about his visit to Google's Mountain View Campus
a story about Stanford University's beautiful Palm Drive entrance and the oval
Raj had an amazing weekend. He calls his father Arjun to tell him about his weekend experience in the bay area.

how amazing it was to drive to LA from SFO through Highway 1 along the pacific coastPacific Coast
hiking Hiking to glacier point (YesomiteYosemite)
his visit Visit to Google's Mountain View Campus
Stanford Visit to Stanford University's beautiful Palm Drive entrance and the oval

Raj also shares some images and posts on Facebook/Twitter describing his weekend experienceexperiences.

When Raj is busy and unavailable to talk, Arjun wishes to recreate the stories that Raj has told him. He wants to learn more about San Francisco.

Goals

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Raj's parents and friends back home want to create the narratives of his stories.

Subgoals

When Arjun and Raj communicate in real time, Arjun would like more contextual information about the locations and events that Raj mentions.
Arjun wants to catch up on the content that Raj has posted about his life in San Francisco when Raj is not around and "replay" stories that Raj has told to him in the past.
Arjun wants to be able to explore the places that Raj has visited in an intuitive way his son's stories with immersive visual representation.