LeXiang: Share the Joy of Reliving Activities from Offline to Online
Alvin Chin, Wei Wang, Xia Wang · 2014
Many people share photos and their locations using applications such as Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter when attending an event or activity, as a means for promoting an activity, for conversation and as an archive to create a sense of community. People find events to attend using applications such as Event Brite and Meet Up, and exchange contact information using applications such as Whats App or We Chat. The problem exists in that the content, contact and context captured in the activity are managed by separate applications, which makes it cumbersome to find and share. How can we record, share and connect easily in the offline activity to relive that activity experience online? We create an application called LeXiang to allow users to easily create ad-hoc activities in real time, record all the participants that actually attended, and record and share content from the activity for reliving the experience. We explain our concept of an ephemeral social network, study how people find and record activities, and then describe our user interface to achieve this.