TIMI - Heads-up Context-aware Multimodal Travel Assistant [Design Portfolio]

🌠 There are many tourism-related applications on our mobile devices which are frequently used by travellers on the move. However, interaction with such applications are often at odds with enjoying the moment, which makes up a large part of the travelling experience. The current heads-down nature of interaction with such applications on the move not only breaks the immersiveness of travelling, it is also too simplistic in its range of affordances, and we think it misses the potential to enhance users' travelling experience through digital means.

Hence, for the above-mentioned interaction design problem, we wish to enhance the user experience of (1) information retrieval, (2) note-taking, (3) photo-taking and (4) navigation, on next-generation hardware platforms like AR smart glasses. We designed TIMI, a heads-up, context-aware multimodal travel assistant, to seamlessly dissolve the user interactions for those tasks into part of the travel experience.