Vitaliy Bondar

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EZ-TRIP
Easy Transit Recreation Instant Planner

• Vitaliy Bondar
• Ping-Ping Ho
• Irene Jong
• Kalman Lau
• Nathan Wooster

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Overview

• Why EZ-TRIP?
• Prototype tasks
• UI design ideas
• Low-fidelity to interactive prototype
• Summary
• Demo
• Questions

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Why EZ-TRIP?

• Problem
• Many different transit systems in the Bay Area
• Cumbersome paper maps and schedules
• Solution
• EZ-TRIP to the rescue!
• Palm application
• Plan a basic trip (point A to point B) with ease
• Plan a trip to points of interest in the Bay Area
• Plan a trip with many stops

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Our Tasks

• Task 1 (easy)
• Get directions
• From your current location in Berkeley
• To your friends new address in San Francisco
• The house warming party is on Saturday at 100
  PM. You want to arrive right on time

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Our Tasks

• Task 2 (medium)
• Plan the trip from Task 1 with added constraints
• Require wheelchair access
• Interested in the fastest route using only
• AC Transit
• MUNI system
• Possess an AC Transit monthly pass

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Our Tasks

• Task 3 (hard)
• You would like to plan a trip from your current
  location to a restaurant and a movie theater
• Leaving on a Saturday at 100 PM
• First go to Lobsters Delight restaurant in SF
  
• Then go to Vics Theater on Pier 39
• Find the directions for your whole trip

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UI Design (Simple Planning)

• User starts at the Main Menu

Defaults make planning faster
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UI Design (Points of Interest)
Choosing a point of interest is done by following
an intuitive wizard
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UI Design (Display Directions)
The resulting directions are available in both
text and map formats
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UI Design (Edit Trip)

• Edit Trip screen
• overview of your trip
• change your basic trip

• More Options screen
• customize the trip
• choose public transit

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UI Design (Look-and-Feel)

• Interface accounts for look-and-feel of Palm
  devices
• Many small screens
• Few controls on each
• screen
• Monochrome display

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Before After (Wording 1)

• More intuitive labeling
• Trip name now includes all locations

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Before After (Wording 2)

• Use more intuitive user vocabulary in the
  directions
• (i.e., instead of
• northbound bus,
• say Bus 52 to
• UC Berkeley)

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Before After (Edit Trip Screen)
Better layout, instructions, and fewer controls
make the Edit Trip screen simpler
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Before After (New Features)

• Interactive Prototype now allows to
• Save a trip for easy lookup later
• Rename the whole trip
• Use holiday schedules

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Before After (Better Defaults)

• Both the From and To locations are set to the
  current location
• The default for the time to leave for a trip is
  set to the current time
• The Time to spend at this location has a
  default of 0 minutes (instead of 30 min)

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Summary

• EZ-TRIP
• Makes it easy to plan a trip using multiple
  transit systems
• Allows quick completion of both simple and more
  complex planning tasks
• Conforms to Palms look-and-feel
• Uses better wording, defaults, and more features
  than the low-fidelity prototype
• Offers a simple and elegant solution for both a
  daily commuter and a fun-seeker!

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Demo

• EZ-TRIP in action!

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EZ-TRIP

• Any Questions?