Stand Up Week 9

Stand-up Contents

• Teaching staff providing direction: Lorna Macdonald
• Show progress on prototyping at https://cautious-lyre.glitch.me/
• Present similar application, previous studies and academic articles
  • Over 70% of U.S. travelers agree that they “always” use their smartphones when traveling, up from 41% in 2015. Travelers most frequently use their mobile devices to research activities or attractions, to locate shopping areas and restaurants, or to look up directions. (Google Consumer Insights, 2018)
  • Explorations of cultural differences in gestures is documented in this academic paper Unspoken Diversity: Cultural Differences in Gestures
  • Related contents regarding cultural norms in other countries can be found here in World Travelers and Wikipedia: Gestures
  • Will our application be regard as an acceptable source? Assessing the Viability of the Urban Dictionary as a Resource for Slang and Open Access Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary
• Discuss the use of like/dislike and upvote/downvote button to measure the effectiveness of a post
• Discuss the categories of culture (Gestures and Etiquettes)
• Discuss the outcomes of interview and questionnaire with international tourists

Stand-up Outcomes

• Lorna advised for a more effective way to plot the questions for interview/questionnaires.

Did you ever do research on the culture specifically the do's and don'ts to make sure you do not offend the culture when you are in a foreign country? (Yes or No questions)

If yes, can you provide examples? (open-ended question)

• The vague nature of upvote/downvote button may be ineffective, do more research on how we can further implement this feature to maximize its potential to gain accurate results
• Allow user to compare cultures between two countries may be useful