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Screen #4 - At any time during the tour, Linda can click the pencil icon on the bottom in order to edit the tour. All the landmarks on the tour will be shown, in the order they occur on the tour. Tour landmarks can be removed from the tour by clicking the “x” on the right side. Tour landmarks can be re-ordered by dragging them around by their handle on the left side. There is an “Add new stop” button that brings you back to the map interface, but a search reveals only landmarks (instead of tours). Selecting one of these would add it to the tour. Finally, there is a “Save tour” button that will save your tour as a new tour (to not overwrite the old one), after a dialog box that asks you to name the tour.
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Screen #1 - When making a tour, the users start at the following screen where they can pick parameters such as where they are starting from, how long they wish the tour to last, how they are travelling, and what they would like to see (all parameters that limit/dictate how users pick tours). On this screen, after they have picked parameters, they can proceed to either follow the generated tour (screen #2) or continue to add to their tour and clearly visualize the tour in a map view (screen #3).
Screen #2#1 Analysis:
- Learnability:
- Simple, straightforward menu for picking parameters
- May be confusing what are the options
- Not clear what is clickable and what is not clickable
- Efficiency:
- Very few screens to navigate
- Very few steps before following a tour
- Default tour parameters exist on menu (start: current location, tour: 1 hour, travel: walking, see everything) making it easy for the user to start
- Safety:
- Requires deliberate actions on the user's part before moving to next screen/part
Screen #2 - Here Torch makes it easy to follow tours with a small map showing the closest landmarks as well as a list/guide of the landmarks they will be travelling to in a scrollable list - Here Torch makes it easy to follow tours with a small map showing the closest landmarks as well as a list/guide of the landmarks they will be travelling to in a scrollable list. This list has a picture of the stop, the stop's name, a small stop description, and an estimate for how much time users on average spend at that specific stop. Users can return to the previous menu by pressing the tab button labelled "Torch" at the top. In addition, at the header at the top, it shows how many stops makes up the tour being show and how long the whole tour will take. It will also let you easily switch between the transportation modes: walking, public transportation, and personal car (inspired by map views found on most phones).
how long the whole tour will take. It will also let you easily switch between the transportation modes: walking, public transportation, and personal car (inspired by map views found on most phones).
Screen #2 Analysis:
- Learnability:
- Explicit markings for each stop
- Map areas behave as expected (no additional learning if already familiar)
- Icons are used consistently and may be already familiar to user
- May be confusing how to get back to main menu
- Not clear what is clickable and what is not clickable
- Efficiency:
- User can easily change tour time or parameters even when following a tour
- User can easily change mode of transportation from walking to car or vice versa
- Safety:
- Requires deliberate button presses to make a tour from main menu (good for error prevention)
- Directions to get from one stop to the next are detailed and time estimates provided
Screen #3 - In map view, the users can see all the landmarks close to the location they chose and they can add or remove landmarks/spots from the menu on the side. They can simply click on a landmark to add it to the list or they can drag and drop it to remove or add to the list on the side. At the top it will show how many stops they have selected and the estimated time to see all of them. The user will have to long-press a landmark on the map to see a description of that spot. To add a landmark to the map, the user must long-press an area of the map that doesn't already have a landmark. Once the user has made their tour, they can click the follow tour button and will be taken to screen #2. In this screen, the user can still return to screen #1 by pressing the Torch tab in the top left corner.
Screen #3 Analysis:
- Learnability
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- Explicit markings for each stop
- Detailed descriptions for each stop, but only after long-press which may not be obvious (although consistent with other map applications)
- Simple, straightforward menu for picking parameters
- Explicit markings for each stop, detailed descriptions
- Map areas behave as expected (no additional learning if already familiar)
- Icons are used consistently and may be already familiar to user
- Ambiguity about how to drag and drop by long-pressing on a stop
- Ambiguity about how to add a stop
- May be confusing how to get back to main menu
- Not clear what is clickable and what is not clickable
- Efficiency:
- Not clear how to add location
- User can easily switch order of stops if they know how
- User can easily change mode of transportation from walking to car or vice versa
- Very few screens to navigate
- Very few steps before following a tour
- User can easily change tour time or parameters even when following a tour
- Default tour parameters exist on menu (start: current location, tour: 1 hour, travel: walking, see everything) making it easy for the user to start
Safety
- Easy to form a tour by clicking or dragging and dropping
- User can easily switch order of stops
- Safety: Requires deliberate button presses to make a tour from main menu (good for error prevention)
- Easy to add landmarks
- by accident
- Not clear how to remove
- landmarks from map
- Easy to remove or add or undo things dragged and dropped onto tour