| This thesis work describes the design, development and evaluation of a mobile ap- plication called Hidden History. This application lets users discover and explore three types of landscapes (Historic, Scenic and Cultural) using three dierent modes of discovery (Route, Explore and Tour).;Before designing Hidden History, the feature set of other applications that help users explore surrounding landscapes were identied and analyzed. Hidden History was then designed to implement the best features of these applications and oer several functionality improvements. Design began with iterative paper prototyping, following which a high delity, digital prototype was created. The high delity prototype was tested through two rounds of usability testing with target users. All the users found the application useful. User testing revealed many issues and areas of improvements for the application. By iteratively prototyping and testing the Hidden History application with users, researchers created a mobile application that better supports the discovery of landscape history. The thesis concludes with suggestions for future work to further improve the application. |
