A traveling memory based upon location-based services and social network sites

Abstract

Traveling is a favorite leisure activity. People always take notes, photos, or videos to remember while traveling. But few of them make travel records completely and continuously. One possible reason is that it is difficult to record, in meticulous detail, traveling; another one is that tourists lack proper tools to facilitate collecting and organizing traveling records. The popularity of smart mobile devices provides a convenient approach for organizing travel records. In this paper, a traveling memory (TM), based upon location-based services and social network sites is introduced. It adopts check-in service in Facebook to let travelers easily collect travel information, and then upload to the TM application. With this application, travelers can select, organize, and share their traveling information. Upon completion of system development, the system usability scale approach was adopted to evaluate system usability. The result shows that travelers have favorable responses to the system.