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things taken into account:

User 3: The Novice Traveler, "Kevin"

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• Age/Gender: 22/Male
• Education: Just graduated from a 4 year university
• Culture: American
• Language: English
• Computer experience: uses a smartphone, basic Windows experience
• Motivation: Planning a vacation
• Domain experience: No previous experience in planning trips

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• Users might be unfamiliar with the city
• Users might be unfamiliar with the local language and culture
• Some schedules might need to span more than one day
• Not all desired locations needed to be visited.  It is perfectly acceptable to omit some attractions, as long as they are not the main attraction.

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Task Analysis

1. Input destinations
   • Goal: Allow the user to input destinations to visit
   • Preconditions:
     • Determined locations to visit
     • Pre-loaded constraint information about destination like hours of operations, lunch break, expected time for visit
   • Subtasks:
     • Auto-complete/correct destination names
2. Add/edit constraints for destinations
   • Goal: Modify constraints for destinations such as:
     • best time to visit
     • appointment times
     • known duration of visit
     • "visit this destination first" and other similar constraints
   • Preconditions:
     • Know what time appointments are scheduled for
     • Have an estimate of the amount of time that needs to be spent at each destination
   • Subtasks:
     • Add “global constraints” such as:
       • Between what times these destinations need to be visited
       • Partial orderings of destinations ("I want to visit the post office right after I buy stamps at the paper store")
       • What type of transportation (car, public transit, walking) is preferred
3. Auto-generate schedule
   • Goal: Using the destinations and constraints inputted by the user, create a schedule to visit all the destinations that meets all the constraints
   • Preconditions:
     • All those listed under the "Input destinations" task
   • Subtasks:
     • Display the generated schedule both overlayed on a map on and a timeline
     • Display the optimal path between locations on a map
     • Show the user the delta between the auto-generated schedule and any partial schedule that the user had previously worked out, so that the user can choose to accept or decline some or all of the changes
4. View and Adjust schedule
   • Goal: change and tweak any part of the schedule including the order of destinations, duration of visit, path to take between destinations...
   • Preconditions:
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   • Subtasks:
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