Transcript Travel Companion

Travel Companion
The only tool that will make
you young, sexy, and rich!
(at least to a first approximation)
Chris Baker
Jordan Hom
Eric Kochhar
Overview
• Service provides real-time directions with pointof-interest mapping, blogging, and
recommendation systems.
• Location aware service that is utilized by client
PCs and handheld devices.
• Requires GPS and wireless technology to
provide a location aware web service.
• Integrates databases, web services, user
interface design, data coherency, efficient
handheld application development, etc.
Web Application
• Users first register on website
• Then add points-of-interest, friends,
reminders, and preferences.
• Locations marked on handheld can be
blogged instead of trying to enter on
handheld.
• Can also be used by travel centers to
generate interest in their area (users add
them as friends).
Mobile Client
• Provides real-time directions.
• Gives reminders when the user gets close
to points-of-interest (notes from
themselves or recommendations of
friends).
• Able to mark locations to enter data to
later through the web application.
• Provides a very simple, point-and-click
interface to increase ease of use.
Uses
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Dates
Traveling
Reminders
Recommendation Community