Development and application of a system for creating and sharing electronic traveler´s diary using a photograph

In this article, we propose a support system to create and share a photograph-based traveler´s diary. People have a demand for sharing traveler´s diaries with photographs and comments to plan their trips or to enjoy reading the travel reports. Travelers can create traveler´s diaries by hand-writing and hand-drawing on photographs which they took at a tourist spot using our system. The diary is shared via SNS site. The other users can browse the diary and over-draw some comments or illustrations on it. We performed an experiment in Japan and China to verify availability of our system. As a result, we confirmed that this system promoted additional over-drawing on a traveler´s diary and exchange of travel information via SNS site.