The Travel Book (tentative name)
Problem Statement
Travelers can record their trips in many ways. For example, they can keep a collection of photos sorted by day, update a journal, or both. Some travelers will decide to share this information with their friends through websites such as Facebook or LiveJournal. However, this sharing method requires the traveler to make an active decision to sit down and do an update. Often, they forget to do so, or are unable to find an internet connection, and their traveling experiences may not be posted for a long time. As a consequence, interested friends or family members would not be updated on the traveler's adventures.
Even for travelers who have no intention of sharing, the action of updating a personal record is often procrastinated, due to the necessary conscious effort to find time.
A Solution
The Travel Book is a mobile application that provides the ability to:
- quickly post new photos and short lines of text via a phone, which is synchronized to the application's server when network access is available.
- maintain a "timeline", or a chronologically-ordered record, of your travels (for either sharing or private use)
- see other users' updates on their timelines
As cameras on phones are getting better and better, more travelers are relying on their phones to take photos. The Travel Book allows travelers to upload these photos instantly, wherever they happen to be on their trips (provided that there is reception). The photos will be added to their timelines, ready for their friends and family members to see.
Group Members
- Sarah Cheng, s_cheng@mit.edu
- Ilia Lebedev, ilebedev@csail.mit.edu
- Jennifer Wong, jenlwong@mit.edu