Many people in North America enjoy capturing the visual, historical, and experiential contexts that landmarks offer as they travel. These individuals, however, use disjoint resources to plan trips, reducing the quality of the narrative experience they receive when visiting a place. To facilitate the narrativization of a place and create a shared experience of that place, I created an Android smartphone application, which allows users to explore basic facts, photographs, historical details, and travelers' experiences regarding New England's 117 coastal lighthouses. I developed three image-processing algorithms to serve as photograph filters and conducted two surveys and five usability studies to inform my iterative, audience-involved application design.

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Creator

• Hufnagle, Kevin Brian

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050614-054155

Advisor

• Agu, Emmanuel O.
• deWinter, Jennifer

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-05-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright