State-of-the-Art analysis - War

I have personally looked at mobile applications and the ones that I have based my analysis on are these applications Res I STHLM: SL Reseplanerare and Stockholm Travel Guide by Triposo with offline maps.

Res I STHLM: This application is SL own smartphone application that have been developed for people who want to travel with SL and get quick information about the travel route from a point A to point B. When the user opens the application the first thing you do is to type in your current location or its uses the smartphone’s location to locate the nearest station and then you enter your destination. The target group of this application is people who have access to a smartphone so it excludes many elders due to the fact that many elders don’t own a smartphone.

Res I STHLM application, this is the first thing that comes up when you open the application.

These are the pro and cons with this smartphone application:

Pro:

·      All public transportation in Stockholm is available.

·      The application provides timetables.

·      It warns the user delays and disturbances occur in the transportation.

·      Uses your current location as departure place.

·      You can choose the time you want to travel.

·      You can choose specific transportation.

·      Map is provided to show the user the travel route.

Cons:

·      Doesn’t work offline.

·      The user cannot change the language in the application.

·      No information in how to get from the tram station to the destination the user wants.

These are some of the use cases that the user can se.

Stockholm Travel Guide…: This application is for tourist who is visiting Stockholm. It offers information about Stockholm that can be very useful for tourists, it shows information of different categories Museums, Hotels, Tours, Mini Guides, Sightseeing, Nightlife etc. This application also offers variety of other functions, it’s not just an application that guides tourist around. The tourist can in the app read about Sweden’s History, culture, food and learn some practical Swedish phrases. The target group of this application is tourists who are visiting Stockholm and these tourists are people who have a smartphone and are comfortable with using their smartphone.

Stockholm Travel Guide... application, this is the first thing that comes up when you open the application. 

These are the pro and cons with this smartphone application:

Pro:

·      Works offline.

·      Users can read reviews that have been created from other users.

·      General information about places like opening hour, price, contact information, directions etc.

·      Users can create city walks that guide them through different museum, churches, famous buildings etc.

Cons:

·      Doesn’t show the users how to get to their destination via public transportation.

·      The users can’t purchase tickets via the application.

·      The user cannot change the language in the application.

Some of the categories the users can choose to look up. 

This is what it looks like when a user want to find information about ex. a museum. In this case it choose some detail information of Vasamuseet.

Analysis: These two smartphone applications are two very different applications, the Res I STHLM is mainly for people who want to travel with the public transportation in Stockholm and Stockholm Travel Guide is almost the complete travel guide for tourists. From the pilot studies that we have done, we in the group considered of making a smartphone application that almost in a way is similar to the Stockholm Travel Guide application but the idea that we discussed in the group had some improvements compered to this application. Because the tourist needs a guide that guides them from the boat terminal to Vasa museum none of the app that I have looked at offers this. The main difference between these applications is that Stockholm Travel Guide works also offline. Both applications are very User-friendly especially the application Res I STHLM, when you open the application the first thing you do is to plan your route where you can choose which time you want to travel and if the user want to exclude some types of transportation the user can change that in the application etc. The Stockholm Travel Guide is also user-friendly but some elder people may have it difficult to navigate through the application due to the fact that it has many functions. So in conclusion the usability of these two applications are simple to use and both of these application have a variety of different use cases, but one downside with Stockholm Travel Guide is that it doesn’t offer any public transportation.