Travel Planner

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Intro

The Travel Planner project is meant to demonstrate information visualization techniques that include:

  • Show an overview of an entire trip
  • Relate geography, time, content, theme
  • Allow tentativeness/uncertainty in user input
  • Allow vagueness
  • Compare alternative configurations of a trip

Mission

Leverage natural human capabilities to dramatically ease and enrich the travel planning experience.

Goal

Successfully transfer ideas, concepts, and designs from Travel Planning prototype to product groups.

Strategy

  • Develop and integrate technologies that
  • Exploit 3D, audio, and animation technologies
  • Enrich and expand design vocabulary
  • Lead to UI paradigm shift in current products through demonstrations and evangelism

 

Updated on 08/26/2005
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