The relevance of applying user interface (UI) design to a proposed web technology of finding favourite place was to consider how design principles might affect the quality and quantity of responses contributed to crowdsourcing projects such as our research project called, “My Favourite Place”. Of course, the wider relevance of finding favourite places, however, has a much greater importance to those who will benefit mostly from the study, such as policymakers, local government, councils, organizations, research institutions and businesses. These key stakeholders play critical roles in supporting a cleaner, safer and prosperous environment for urban and rural communities.
Finally, it is important to establish the kind of study you are embarking, such as our study of favourite places, focusing on both empirical and theoretical and applies several disciplines to the thesis, such as sense of place, environmental psychology, geoinformatics, user interface design, crowdsourcing, tourism and volunteered geographic information (VGI), which works towards understanding people’s reasons for preferring favourite places more than others.