Project Website http://speech.media.mit.edu/projects/pintail/
Pintail is a travel companion app for guided storytelling. Pintail will track your travel activities right from the beginning so that it can nudge you with personalized story-telling triggers using that apriori information at the right context. Users are likely to create better stories if they start early by having a storytelling plan and have all the trip related information automatically aggregated. Pintail would act as that work-in-progress scrapbook from the moment a trip is planned. Pintail will provide users the structure and tools for storytelling while taking into account the short attention span of today's audience. Pintail would use priming as a technique by showing the user what others feel or have drawn about the places s/he is visiting. Some of the content of Pintail prompts would be automatically collected from travel review sites. Users then can use the Pintail story-creation tools to reflect and create their own stories. Pintail would also attempt to balance between the story creation activity and the actual trip experience.