Future Directions
The first task for future work on this project would be to implement and test a working prototype of the PhotoArcs system, incorporating what we learned from the low-fidelity usability studies and integrating a standard photograph visualization in the background to assist users in adding photographs to arcs. After that, the PhotoArcs project could potentially go in many directions. Below we will outline the directions that most interest us.
- Privacy filters: let users create an arc specifically for one person and send it to them.
- Audio clips and/or integration of synchronous audio communication with recording
HistoryArcs can show one’s browsing path through others’ PhotoArcs or a photo site such as Flickr
- Interactive, multi-author PhotoArcs
- Automatic conversion to and from other photo-sharing formats such as photoblogs and online albums, and easy ways to switch between the various views