Created by: Anuj Agrawal (Website: http://www.anujgeek.com)
Final project for:
Clemson University - HCC 8310 - Fundamentals of Human-Centered Computing
Cross-platform mobile app created using:
FrontEnd: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Phonegap
BackEnd: C#, WCF, LINQ, Entity Framework, MySQL
Travel Buddy (a social media based travel plan predictor and recommender) – aims to address the problems tourists and travellers face when they plan a prospective vacation by providing them with vacation preparation guidance and a day on day travel plan that contains recommendations based on the user's social media data (this app uses facebook). Also, the user has options to choose a vacation plan based on his/her cost preferences. This ensures that a person using this app has proper guidance on issues like the right time to book cheapest travel tickets, purchasing travel insurance, VISA process and weather conditions at the destination of travel. The day on day plan gives the user guidance on choosing accommodations, restaurants and places of interest in the destination based on his social media preferences that are driven by the user’s likes, shares, posts, check-ins, etc. on Facebook.
Login screen will show a 'Connect with Facebook' button that lets you connect this app with your facebook account. Upon login, you will be taken to Home page which will provide you options to select a recommended travel plan or to choose a custom travel plan.
Upon login, you will get the following options in the menu. You can also specify notification settings.
Upon clicking the option of recommended travel plan or custom travel plan, you will be taken to their respective pages.
The following two pages then provides you with details of your travel plan.
Special thanks to: Dr. Kelly Caine and Dr. Jerome McClendon - for their guidance in following the HCC design cycle for this app.
Also to : Bharat Kumar Govindaradjou, Zachariah Inks and Shreenath Ganesh - for help with the design and development of this app.