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Helpful Travel Apps HCI Best Practices

Category App Name Description Page # Air travel FlightView Real-time flight/gate tracking (includes in app ads) 2 Air travel FlightView Elite Real-time flight/gate tracking (no ads, plus flight boards) 2 Air travel FlightView Plus Real-time flight/gate tracking (no ads) 2 Eating Trip Advisor Recommendations on restaurants (and more) 2 Eating Yelp Find places to eat and drink (and shop, relax, visit and play) 2 Eating Zomato Restaurant reviews in other countries 3 Health/Emergency Aid CDC Center for Disease Control 3 Health/Emergency Aid First Aid: American Red Cross First aid advice 4 Health/Emergency Aid ICE (In Case of Emergency) Store information needed by emergency personnel 4 Health/Emergency Aid ICE Medical Standard Store information needed by emergency personnel 5 Health/Emergency Aid Travel Safe Avoid unsafe neighborhoods 5 Health/Emergency Aid Travel Safe Pro Emergency contact information 5 International Google Translate 103 languages (59 with no internet) 6 International Mobile Passport For customs 6 International WeChat Free messaging and calling 7 International WhatsApp Use wi-fi to communicate for free (message, text and voice) 7 International XE currency Exchange rates 8 Passenger vehicle travel GasBuddy Locate gas station 8 Passenger vehicle travel Waze Traffic and construction 9 Scanners CamCard Scan business card to store data 9 Scanners Scanner Mini Scan documents into iphone 9 Scanners Simple Scan Scan documents into Android device 10 Touring AroundMe Locate business that are nearby 10 Touring Counter + Counting app to keep track of multiple values 10 Touring Counter Keep It Simple Counting app to count everything 11 Touring EZ Tip Calculator Calculate tips (Android) 11 Touring Find My Friends GPS app that allows you to locate individuals 11 Touring GlobeTips Advice on how to tip in 240+ countries 12 Touring HISTORY Here Escort notes 12 Touring Quick Tip Calculate tips (iPhone) 13 Touring Weather Channel Weather 13

Apps listed are available in:

Verified to be available as of January 15, 2019

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Air travel 1. Flight View – Flight Tracker for all airlines

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store 3 Versions:

FlightView Free - FREE (includes in app ads) FlightView - $0.99 (no ads) FlightView Elite - $3.99 (no ads, plus flight boards)

• Track upcoming and in-air flights and receive status alerts via push notifications.• Check gate assignments, delays and cancellations and use the attractive flight tracker map to see a flight's

progress.• Forward your itinerary confirmation emails, and flightview will automatically load them into you're my Trips.• See your trips across mobile devices and at www.flightview.com.• Elite version only, view Flight Boards at major airports to quickly see a list of upcoming arriving and departing

flights.

Eating 1. Trip Advisor – get recommendations on restaurants (and more)

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • Follow friends and travel experts to get helpful advice and recommendations• Discover travel ideas from the videos, Trip guides, articles and reviews in your personal travel feed• Save and organize your favorite travel ideas so you can plan and book easily - all in one place• Access over 700 million candid traveler reviews and opinions• See the lowest hotel prices from over 200 booking sites• Find the best hotel for you, including Travelers' Choice award winners• Search and book amazing tours and attractions• Explore restaurants and reserve tables online• Compare airfares and find great deals• Get answers to your specific travel questions from other travelers in the TripAdvisor forums• Discover what’s near your current location• Add your own reviews and photos

2. Yelp – find places to eat and drink (and shop, relax, visit and play)

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE

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• Find the newest, hottest and top-rated places to eat and bars to drink nearby• Dine at local restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or get something to go

Order timely food delivery• Easily make a reservation, book a table, order pickup or food delivery, view restaurant menus—all from your

phone• Read restaurant reviews from other Yelp users & scroll through photos to help you decide where to go• Get amazing food deals for dining and delivery places nearby, plan dinner reservations for your trips in advance

3. Zomato – restaurant reviews in other countries


• Search easily for Restaurants, Cafes, Pubs and Bars by location, cuisine (e.g. Chinese, Italian, Indian), name (e.g.Starbucks, Domino's Pizza, Amaya).

• Explore every restaurant in your city, including the ones near your current location, and use search filters to findthe one that suits you best.

• View menus, pictures, phone numbers, directions, user reviews, and all the other information you need tochoose a restaurant for Dine Out, Food Delivery, Nightlife, or Takeaway.

• Browse our theme-based curated lists to discover places for the best burgers, perfect date spots, or the toptrending restaurants.

• Create your own Collections and share them with your friends and followers.• Rate and review restaurants you've been to, and share photos directly from the app.• Maintain an easy reference list of your favorites or places you want to visit with Bookmarks.• Use the map view to explore restaurants around you, or draw a circle to search in a specific area.• Find and follow your friends to see where they're eating and what they like.• Journal the restaurants you eat at using your Dineline.• In-app table booking (select locations) – you can view and book yourself a table at all partner restaurants.

Zomato is now available in over 10,000 cities across India, USA, Australia, the UK, UAE, Canada, Ireland, NewZealand, South Africa, Portugal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Chile,Italy, Lebanon, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Qatar. More locations coming very soon.

Health/Emergency Aid 1. CDC – Center for Disease Control


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The app ensures that you’re getting the most up to date health information. The home screen lets you see all your information in one place and updates whenever your device is connected to wi-fi. Enjoy a greater variety of content such as stories, videos, podcasts, and features to give you the most current health information from CDC.

Browse Featured Articles, stay on top of health news in the Newsroom section, and view CDC Images of the Week. If you’re a journal reader, view the latest Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging and Infectious Disease journal, or the latest on Preventing Chronic Diseases. Lots of new information sources and features have been added to the redesigned application. You can even search CDC’s web content from the app.

Organize your home page so that the information that’s most important to you appears first! Turn off the sources you don’t want with just a flip of a switch and reset it all with the tap of a button.

2. First Aid - American Red Cross – Expert advice for every-day emergencies


• Simple step-by-step instructions guide you through everyday first aid scenarios.• Fully integrated with 9-1-1 so you can call EMS from the app at any time.• Videos and animations make learning first aid fun and easy.• Safety tips for everything, from severe winter weather to hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes help you

prepare for emergencies.• Iinstant access to all safety information at any time, even without reception or an Internet connection.• Interactive quizzes allow you to earn badges that you can share with your friends and show off your lifesaving

knowledge.

3. ICE (In Case of Emergency) – Store information needed by rescuers and doctors

Available at the Google Play Store: FREE ICEcard is a convenient way to store information needed by rescuers and doctors, if you are a victim of an emergency. In addition to a list of contacts of the closest persons, it also allows you to save information about taken medications, past diseases, allergies and other health information.

Thanks to the ability of creating multiple profiles, the program can also become a useful database for medical information about family members or other close persons.

A special alarm button allows you to send in critical situation, an emergency sms message to all the people from your contact list, containing (among others) data collected from mobile phone’s GPS, so that the closest persons become instantly informed about serious life-threatening situations and receive information about the current position of the user.

Just one click on the screen to let your loved ones know that you need help!

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4. ICE Medical Standard (or ICE Standard)– store information needed by emergencypersonnel


Over 14,000 Hospitals, Medical Clinics, Medical Schools and Visiting Angels - America’s Choice in Homecare and Living Assistance Services. With over 550 franchise offices across the United States are recommending and listing ICE Medical Standard App on their Websites and Emergency Pages.

First Responder’s, EMS, EMTs, FEMA, and ER Staff can view Your 3 Color Coded Medical Status by viewing the 1 of 3 colors on top of the ICE Medical Standard App or Your Smartphone Lock Screen Overlay Display to gain at-a-glance insight into Your Well-Being. The 3 Color Code Status Auto-Populates based on the information you enter into the ICE Medical Standard App or the ICE Medical Standard ID Card.

Red Color Code is High Risk Status – Alert and tells First Responder’s, EMS, EMTs, FEMA, and ER Staff to pause and read further. It reflects severe Allergies or Health Conditions. Yellow Color Code is Medium Risk Status – Alert and indicates the user is taking only Medications. If none of these apply, Green Color Code means you are Good To Go Status. You Can Choose To Show or Hide which Personal Information is displayed on your Smartphone Lock Screen Overlay Display to Protect Your Privacy.

Since uploading the original ICE Standard Application on December 24, 2010, ICE Medical Standard App has over 100 Million Users in Untied States. ICE Medical Standard App, is the Industry Standard for Storing and Retrieving Personal Medical Information to Emergency Critical Care Networks in the event of an Accident or a Disaster.

5. Travel Safe – avoid unsafe neighborhoods

Available at the App Store: FREE • Integrated GPS Maps displays the safest navigation routes and keep drivers out of shady areas and harm’s way.• Travel-Safe makes it easy to avoid danger zones in bad neighborhoods while driving.

6. Travel Safe Pro – crucial emergency contact information while abroad

Available at the Google Play Store: $.99 • Country Emergency Numbers• Embassies of your country worldwide• Useful Country Information (voltages, plug types, gratuity, time zones, etc.)

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• Tip Calculator• Currency Exchange Rate Calculator (supports 154 currencies)• Panic Button Widget (can send sms to 3 registered contacts)• Country Emergency Numbers Widget• The majority of the functions don't need any internet connection

International 1. Google Translate - 103 languages (59 with no internet)


• Text translation: Translate between 103 languages by typing• Offline: Translate with no internet connection (59 languages)• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (38 languages)• Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (50 languages)• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (32 languages)• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (93 languages)• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)

Translations between the following languages are supported:Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian,Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish,Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek,Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish,Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian,Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian,Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian,Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese,Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish,Yoruba, Zulu

2. Mobile Passport – for customs


The Mobile Passport app speeds you through U.S. Customs when entering the USA at 3 cruise ports and 24 airports!

Officially authorized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, MOBILE PASSPORT allows U.S. and Canadian passport holders (on B1 or B2 visas) to submit their passport control and customs declaration information via their iPhone or iPad and bypass the regular line to enter the United States. This app effectively replaces the traditional blue-and-white paper declaration form required of all travelers entering the U.S. by air or sea.

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1. Complete your profile with basic passport information.2. Answer CBP’s questions about your trip.3. Submit your information UPON YOUR ARRIVAL and get a receipt from CBP.4. Follow the signs to the dedicated Mobile Passport Control lane.5. Scan your receipt and show your passport to the CBP officer.

3. WeChat – messaging and calling

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING: Send video, image, text, and voice messages.• GROUP CHAT & CALLS: Create group chats with up to 500 people and group video calls up to 9 people.• FREE VOICE & VIDEO CALLS: High-quality free calls to anywhere in the world.• WECHAT OUT CALLS: Make calls to landlines and mobile around the globe at low rates (in certain regions only).• STICKER GALLERY: Hundreds of free, fun, animated stickers to express your feelings from some of your favorite

cartoons and movies.• MOMENTS: Share your best moments on your personal photo stream.• BETTER PRIVACY: WeChat gives you the highest level of control over your privacy. It's the only messaging app to

be certified by TRUSTe.• MEET NEW FRIENDS: Use “Friend Radar”, “People Nearby” and “Shake” to meet others.• REALTIME LOCATION: Instead of having to tell others where you are, just use real-time location sharing.• LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Localized in 20 different languages and can translate messages to any language.• WeRun-WeChat: Access HealthKit data and challenge friends to beat their scores via the "WeRun-

WeChat" Official Account.• AND MORE: Desktop app, custom wallpapers, custom notifications, and Official Accounts.

4. WhatsApp – to use wireless to call home (messaging, text and voice)

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • NO FEES: WhatsApp uses your phone's Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/EDGE or Wi-Fi, as available). There are

no subscription fees to use WhatsApp.• MULTIMEDIA: Send and receive photos, videos, and Voice Messages.• FREE CALLS: Call your friends and family for free with WhatsApp Calling, even if they're in another country.• WhatsApp calls use your phone's Internet connection rather than your cellular plan's voice minutes. (Note: Data

charges may apply. Contact your provider for details. Also, you can't access 911 and other emergency servicenumbers through WhatsApp).

• GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group chats with your contacts so you can easily stay in touch with your friends or family.• WHATSAPP WEB: You can also send and receive WhatsApp messages right from your computer's browser.• NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: There's no extra charge to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with

your friends around the world and avoid international SMS charges.

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• SAY NO TO USERNAMES AND PINS: Why bother having to remember yet another username or PIN? WhatsAppworks with your phone number, just like SMS, and integrates seamlessly with your phone's existing addressbook.

• ALWAYS LOGGED IN: With WhatsApp, you're always logged in so you don't miss messages. No more confusionabout whether you're logged in or logged out.

• QUICKLY CONNECT WITH YOUR CONTACTS: Your address book is used to quickly and easily connect you withyour contacts who have WhatsApp so there's no need to add hard-to-remember usernames.

• OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your notifications or turn off your phone, WhatsApp will save your recentmessages until the next time you use the app.

• AND MUCH MORE: Share your location, exchange contacts, set custom wallpapers and notification sounds,email chat history, broadcast messages to multiple contacts at once, and more!

• Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.

5. XE currency – exchange rates


• Calculate prices with the currency converter• Monitor up to 10 currencies of your choice• Monitor the markets with immediate notification using XE Rate Alerts• Access to every world currency and precious metal• Easy-to-use calculator functionality• Saves the last updated rates when offline• Historical charts for any currency pair in the world• Compare your provider's price to the mid-market rate• Currency Profile shares facts about your favorite currency• Market Analysis highlighting currency news everyday• Customization for the frequency of rate updates• Currency widget for at-a-glance views

Passenger vehicle travel 1. Gas Buddy – locate gas station

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • Locate the gas stations with the lowest-priced gas — no matter the type — near you• Filter the search results by price, location, brand, and amenities like car washes, restaurants and restrooms• Read hundreds of thousands of reviews written by the GasBuddy community• Don't just save at the pump. Save while you drive with GasBuddy Trips. Using the motion detection native to

your phone, we will show you events that are costing you fuel economy and dollars.

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• Never pay full price again —join Pay with GasBuddy and save 10c/gal on your 1st fill-up and 5c/gal on every fillup after

• Get price hike alerts so you can fill up before the increase• Find deals offered by local convenience stores• Enter the daily drawing for a chance to win $100 in free gas

2. Waze – traffic and construction

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • See what’s happening - Alerts about traffic, police, hazards and more on your drive• Get there faster - Instant routing changes to avoid traffic and save you time• Easily listen to music - play your favorite apps for music, podcasts & more right from Waze• Know when you’ll arrive - your Arrival Time is based on live traffic data• Pay less for gas - find the cheapest gas along your route• Drive with Apple CarPlay - use Waze on your car’s display• Always find the way - choose from a variety of voices to guide you while you drive

Scanners 1. CamCard – scan business cards into phone


• You can scan up to 200 cards in free version• Scan and store your business cards, never miss a card• Exchange e-cards with people nearby• Add notes & reminders to contacts• Get contact updates. Be the first one to say congrats

2. Scanner Mini by Readdle – scan images to iphone

Available at the App Store: FREE • Fast and Easy Scanning• Advanced Image Processing• Search your Photo Library for documents• iCloud sync across all devices

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• Protect your PDFs• Edit. Save. Edit again.• Share your scans• Upload scans to online storage

3. Simple Scan – scan image to Android device

Available at the Google Play Store: FREE • Mobile phone document, automatically remove the clutter background, generate high-definition JPEG pictures

or PDF files.• A variety of image processing mode, you can manually adjust the image parameters, with a mobile phone can be

paper documents, quickly turned into a clear electronic draft.• Scan color, grayscale, or black and white• Automatically detects page edges• 5 levels of contrast for clear monochrome text• Set the PDF page size (Letter, Legal, A4, etc.)• Thumbnail or list view, sorted by date or title• Simple scanner are optimized to run very fast.• Quick search by document title• Use a password to protect your documents

Touring1. AroundMe – allows you to search for the nearest restaurants, banks, gas stations, book

a hotel or find a movie schedule nearby.


• Shows you a complete list of all the businesses in the category you have tapped on along with the distance fromwhere you are.

2. Counter + - App store – counter app to keep track of multiple values

Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE • Supports several counters• Different color themes

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• Custom counters name, value and step• History of counters• Lefty mode for left-handed• Multi counter mode - All counter on one page• Output counter value and history report• Tap sound and vibration feedback• Show counter value on icon badge• Reset individual or all counter value

3. Counter Keep it Simple – simple tally counter app that you can use to count everything

Available at the Google Play Store: FREE

• Create multiple tally counters• Customize the color of each counter• Set goals that you want to reach• Group items by category• Check your statistics for each counter• Export your counters statistics using an Excel file• Export statistics for a specific counter• Configure count increment value, even to decimals!• Support for negative values

4. EZ Tip Calculator – for calculating tips

Available at the Google Play Store: FREE

• Easily calculate your tip, and split among multiple people

5. Find My Friends – GPS app that allows you to locate individuals Available at the App Store or Google Play Store: FREE

Find My Friends from the App Store • Easily locate friends and family• Location-based notifications• Simple privacy controls• Parental restrictions

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• Free for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch• Share your location temporarily or permanently• Quickly share your location with nearby friends using AirDrop• Use phone number or email address to share your location and invite friends to share back• Support for 3D Touch

Find My Friends from Google Play Store

• Find your friends on a map• Share your location with your friends• Chat with friends• Get info -- on ETA, exact location, etc.• Share news -- about a great new restaurant opening, store sale, etc.• Get directions

6. GlobeTips – Precise advice on how to tip adequately in a specific situation in 240+countries

Available at the App Store: FREE

• Bill recognition for automatic tip calculation• Tip guide for 240+ countries and regions• Automatic country detection• Possibility to divide tips among number of people• Service-based tipping• Tip calculation excluding sales tax• Automatic currency detection• Possibility to observe split bill and tip amount per person• Tip rounding to whole number• You can also remind, copy and share a bill.

7. History Here – escort notes


• Location-based notifications on iPhone and Apple Watch• Thousands of exclusive points of interest, written by the history experts at HISTORY®

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• Select your current location with GPS or search any location across the country• Tap Surprise Me! to see a random location somewhere in the U.S.• Display historic locations in a zoomable, map-based view or in a scrolling list• Share the locations you find with friends via Facebook, Twitter and email• Get distances and driving or walking directions to points of interest

8. Quick Tip – for calculating tips

Available at the App Store: FREE

• Easily calculate your tip, and split among multiple people

9. Weather Channel – weather information


• Plan your day up to two weeks in advance with hourly & daily forecasts.• Get your current conditions at a glance with weather data that’s relevant where you are.• Stay safe with severe storm alerts and safety tips from the National Weather Service.

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