UK Travel

Motivation

UK Travel helps users that want to organize a trip in the UK. Firstly, it can be used when someone wants to plan the journey, with a Web site to look for air tickets, a place to stay (with a service similar to the one described in Home Finder). Then, while travelers are in the city, UKT offers features for mobile devices (smartphones, PDAs), i.e. routes, monuments and arts work descriptions, getting data from his archive and from sources like Wikipedia.

Story Board

Before the travel (1) - planning the trip

  1. Carlo and his friends want to spend a vacation in London.
  2. He opens UKT and fills the form with useful information to look for an available apartment
    • They are 5 people
    • They want to spend two vacation weeks in August
    • etc.
  3. Carlo submits the form to UKT
  4. UKT looks for available apartment and shows them to Carlo
  5. Carlo books an apartment
  6. UKT redirects him to the estate agency that published the offer

Before the travel (2) - planning a city tour

  1. Carlo logs on UKT to plan a route to visit the city
  2. UKT shows a list of default routes
  3. Carlo chooses a route from the list
  4. UKT shows some lists with museum, monuments, events that will take place in London in those days, etc.
  5. Carlo customizes the route:
    • He adds a monument that he wants to see
    • He remove two museums
    • He adds some events
    • etc.
  6. UKT tries to create a new route to satisfy Carlo requests
    • UKT realizes that Carlo and his friends can't arrive in time for the beginning of an event because it's a long way to reach the place
    • UKT warns Carlo about it
  7. Carlo wants to watch that event, even if they get late
  8. UKT replans the route

During the travel

  1. Carlo and his friends are in London, and with Carlo's smartphone they connect to UKT
  2. Carlo login to UKT mobile service
  3. UKT sends information about the route Carlo planned, and it shows it in a map
  4. Carlo starts to follow the route to visit the city

Kinds of data sources

LarkcProject/WP6/WorkInProgress/Storyboard-UKT (last edited 2008-09-10 14:22:33 by ?IreneCelino)