Marius Constantin

The University of Southern California has a student body of about 40,000 people and a fairly large main campus. Around registration and graduation times, it often happens that parents or future students stop me asking for directions to buildings where they want to go. There are several large maps installed at key points on the campus and map leaflets are available at the Information Booths and are distributed during the orientation sessions. Although these maps are quite detailed, a visitor can be put off by the large number of buildings and, if the distance to the destination is long, people can get lost. After talking with my colleagues and several students, we came to the conclusion that it would be a good thing to offer our visitors an application they could use to get step-by-step directions within the campus. Thus the "Campus Directions" idea was born and with... (more)