Surveys on Planes [2 of 3]

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Given the wealth of visual information now digitally available to us, complete with satisfying resolution, and the restricted confines of needing to stay seated in a capsule rocketing your body through space at about 500 mph, it seems a well placed emphasis that passenger comfort could be built up more around the mental experience (Answers Corporation , 2011). At this writing, the most common ways to address this (from the airline) include the following: dog-eared magazines, whatever was left to greet you in the pouch of the seat back facing you, whatever the airline has chosen to screen on the mini monitors and looking out the window (particularly if you have one).

The iPad “survey” is now in a position to ask (preview, really) how you as a flight consumer feel about the following (and these are this writers suggestions, by no means exhaustive):



Flight Related

This writers expertise is not in IT, so there will not be a presumption as to whether or not access can be made through a plug-in or Wi-Fi; although the latter is preferred, one way or another this can be accomplished now (at low expense). We understand that some of this information is available some of the time, yet making all of it available all of the time would be of interest to some. Moreover, for the well traveled, the ability to select what they want to see when they want to see it may be of interest. This may be particularly true if certain triggers could be set up at the beginning of the flight (for example alerting and/or recording the consumer web choices; e.g., about to fly over a particular landmark). The consumer should also have the ability to not only view, but to capture as well (download as streaming video, video clips or captured as still images – consumers choice) any of the following documentation of their experience.

Among visual information sought for ranking would include constant feeds (versus the current intermittent) of

• flight pattern mapping

o satellite

o traffic

o terrain (as is … see exterior bottom web cam bullet)

• flight statistics

• cockpit Webcam (where not a security issue)

• 1 of 7 or more exterior Webcams (fixed top, bottom, port, starboard, front and back … and at least one that scans for “the visually notable”; e.g., flying over a mountain, a city, a monument, etc.)

There is hope these visuals be arrayed as one wished; sized and resized, stacked, full screened, minimized and in any other way emulate a browser experience.



Destination Related

Whether the flight is to a new land and a new experience (prompting an opportunity for a multicultural learning opportunity) or is a brief jaunt home from business in another city, there seem innumerable opportunities for experiential support. Again, this should all be "capture-able".

• visual smorgasbord

o postcards of the destination

o notable landmarks

o expressions of culture

o “area basket” (links to Google street, the local papers, etc.)

• destination encyclopedia (the ability to look up anything through classic internet search means, or…)

o grouped search

 tourism (accommodation, transportation, sites, etc.)

 business (ATM’s, institutions, etc.)

 family (schools, markets, etc.)

 entertainment (cinema & theater, galleries & museums, etc.)

 etc.

• multiculturalism (whether domestically regional or transnational, insight to appropriate behavior and what to expect)

o business

o social

o among friends