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LFE Medieninformatik •
Project ThesisSilvia Peter
TravelDiary: Route-based Organization and Browsing of Personal Travel Photo Collections
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Contents
• Introduction• Related Work• Implementation• Evaluation• Conclusion and Future Work
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Motivation
Folder structure in Windows Explorer Map with pins
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Existing Systems
Picasa [2]iPhoto [1]
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Contents
• Introduction• Related Work• Implementation• Evaluation• Conclusion and Future Work
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Related Work
• Prototypes for event-based organization– TimeQuilt [3]– PhotoTOC [4]
• Prototyp for organization based on GPS-information– PhotoCompas [5]
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Contents
• Introduction• Related Work• TravelDiary• Evaluation• Conclusion and Future Work
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Design Concepts
• Chronological structure• Route-based representation• Automatic organization + manual override
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User Interface
TravelDiary‘s user interface
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Contents
• Introduction• Related Work• TravelDiary• Evaluation• Conclusion and Future Work
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Settings and Procedure
• 12 Participants• Pre-questionnaire, Interview, Post-questionnaire• Comparative study between Picasa and TravelDiary• 4 tasks
– Create an album for one trip– Reorganize photos in this album– Build this trip on the map– Storytelling of this trip based on the created map
• Think-Aloud protocol, record of screen activities
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Results
Average scores for the main functionalities
Task FunctionalityPicasa
TravelDiary
Create new album 3.58 4.42
Indicate location of album 4.83 2.41
Reordering of photos 2.75 /
Photos grouped in different days / 4.67
Photos in each day grouped in event-clusters / 3.67
Merge/split cluster / 3.42
Select/deselect RP photos / 3.75
Add 4.67 4.91
Move 4.67 5.00
Delete 3.92 4.85
Add 4.58 4.42
Display 2.25 3.92
Move / 4.67
Delete / 4.67
Storytelling 3.80 4.50
Slideshow 2.75 4.30
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Single photo on the map
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Overall impression of the two systems
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Implications
Map in country level
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Implications
Clutter problem with many photos
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Implications
Manually created route Automatically created route
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Contents
• Introduction• Related Work• TravelDiary• Evaluation• Conclusion and Future Work
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Future Work• User-centered design
– Investigate users‘ practical requirements– Paperprototyping– Test and redefine– …
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References
• [1] iPhoto: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/ (08.06.2009)• [2] Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com (08.06.2009)• [3] Huynh, D., Drucker, S., Baudisch, p., Wong, C. Time quilt:
Scaling up Zoomable Photo Browsers for Large, Unstructured Photo Collections. SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (Prtland, Oregon, USA). CHI ’05.
• [4] Platt, J., Czerwinski, M., Field, B. PhotoTOC: Automatic Clustering for Browsing Personal Photographs. Microsoft ResearchTechnical Report MSR-TR-2002-17, 2002.
• [5] Naaman M., Song Y.J., Paepcke A., Garcia-Molina H. Automatic organization for digital photographs with geo-graphic coordinates. Proc. of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (Portland, Oregon, USA). JCDL ’02.
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Thank you for your attention!Any questions?
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Implementation
• Supporting tools– Piccolo framework– JXMapViewer– OpenStreetMap
• Underlying algorithms– Event detection:
– Representative photo selection
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