Urban Tourist Map Adoption Research (findings published in IMWUT 2018)
- Built a Android app which features GPS-enabled tourist map
- Conducted a field study to understand tourists' wayfinding process and map adoption among paper tourist map, Google Map and a newly developed digital tourist map during their urban travels
Location-based Social Media Research (findings published in IMWUT 2020)
- Launched Tourgether, a location-based mobile app allowed tourists within the same region share their real-time travel experiences via check-ins
- Crafted the Tourgether Android app individually, used Node.js Express, and Firebase on the backend
- Developed a web control panel to real-time monitor participants’ activity using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Conducted field studies with 4 UX designer to understand 42 groups of tourists’ behavior with the app
- Analyzed quantitative data after the field study using pivot tables and linear regression