Application Description



eMARU is a device supporting travelers in foreign countries. eMARU offers information concerning several areas which are important while traveling.
First of all, the features we thought about in general, they are described in our feature list:
  1. eMARU should be an extended travel guide. Besides giving normal information, it should also tell you how to behave correctly in a certain situation.
  2. eMARU should be an extended dictionary. It can not just translate words you enter, but you can also scan something (an unknown plant e.g) and offer the name and further information.
  3. eMARU should support you in public transport. Here we think about translating information given in a foreign language on the one hand, and finding and proposing connections (eg if the train is late) on the other hand.
  4. eMARU should be an extended restaurant guide. It should not just inform you about restaurants where places are available, but also about meals you should try.
As eMARU should help you in several situations that occur during a journey, it must be portable. A laptop is too big and to heavy. We thought about a combination of a PDA, a Camera, a device to establish a mobile connection and maybe a device for speech recognition.
We need the screen of the PDA to get an user interface that is easy to handle, to present information in an adequate way, and to offer flexible input possibilities.
© 2003 by Konrad Gerhards • konger@t-link.de , Sunae Ju • sunaeju@gmx.de , Lilian Sunadi • sunadi@t-online.de