User Flow Diagram (1 site)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nBelow is a detailed user flow diagram of the application, focusing on the process of getting to one site (Figure 1) and the end of the experience (Figure 2). In the events that take place between those in figure 1 and 2, it will be of other sites on the tour path, repeating the events in figure 1 except with sites 2a, 3a and so on. This is the same for the local business sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFigure 1: User flow to get to the first site of the respective avatars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFigure 2: End of experience user flow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMarketing\/promotion:<\/em><\/strong> The marketing of the application relies partly on this end of experience portion. The users will be given the option to email themselves an image of tour completion, for social media posts. The end screen will also encourage users to share snapshots and reviews of the experience with the hashtag #HiddenHistoriesAR, and tagging the official social media accounts of Hidden Histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStoryboard sequence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nBelow is a short sequence (figures 3 and 4) showing the potential user\u2019s experience, specifically when the user is choosing the audio commentary option at site 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this example, site 1 is identified as 5 Pointz \u2013 an actual place in New York affected by gentrification \u2013 and the avatar chosen by the potential user is called Janice.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFigure 3: Potential user standing in front of site 1a, 5 Pointz (the brown building in the image, directly in front of user). Prior to this step, the user was directed to the location with the map in the application, as mentioned in the above User Flow Diagram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\nFigure 4: Series of screen mock-ups to show the pages that the user sees when they choose to listen to the avatar\u2019s (Janice) audio commentary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first mock-up shows the purpose of image-tracking technology in the application, to launch the options for the user at the site. Here, the user is using the phone to scan site 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*<\/strong>The question mark button seen in the top right hand corner of the screens are a help\/instruction button for users to tap, in case they are unsure of what to do or what the page is asking of them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the past two years of the pandemic, during which travelling has been brought to a halt, trends that may arise as identified by Lonely Planet after this hiatus includes responsible travel and self-guided tours. This is where Hidden Histories, an augmented reality (AR) travel experience, comes in. Hidden Histories comes in the form of an application and aims to create an alternate tourist experience to educate tourists, both domestic and international, on native communities of destinations and simultaneously support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/immersivemedialab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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