There are multiple facets to traveling and to a traveller. Pleasure, explore, business are many of the few reasons, similarly, the kinds of traveler range from family, single, budget, adventurous, luxury. Various permutations and combinations of these facets define ‘the unique travel experience’. Our digital travel book aims to capture this need for a customized experience.

Thus the overall idea seeks to appropriately
Inform
Suggest
Facilitate
Trigger
Personalize the travel experience.

Its primary audience of the book are single people who travel either alone or with group of friends.

Rubina Ramchandani, Chiao-Wei Ho and Aarti Vashisht – we are graduate candidates of Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design. Together we worked to realize the above idea and this site documents our process. The project is part of Productive Interaction class conducted by Philip Van Allen.

Class Brief – Questions of interactive fiction have been debated for the last 15-20 years, but this project does not actively engage in that discourse. Rather, the focus is on the new potentials for substantial non-fiction works that, so far, have lived in the printed book or in tentative translations of print into the electronic form.

To design the future of non-fiction books, Textbooks, reference, how-to, history, and other rich informational books have much to gain from interaction and the rich range of media (text, color image, video, interactive graphics, audio, etc.) that digital delivery systems offer.