Software Development of Local Flower Recognition in Tomohon City

based on Augmented Reality

Verry Ronny Palilingan, Trudi Komansilan, Julyeta Paulina Amelia Runtuwene, and Riando Tando

Information Technology and Communication Education Department,

UniversitasNegeri Manado, Tondano,95618, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Keywords: Software development, local flower recognition, augmented reality, borg and gall, tomohon city.

Abstract: Tomohon City is known as a flower city, with has various varieties of flower, and annually they have an

event called Tomohon International Flower Festival. As for it, it will need a media that can be use as a

reference and interactively introduced the local flowers that exist in Tomohon city. The research methods

developed in this product are Research and Development (R & D) using Borg and Gall approach which

includes research and data collection, planning, product design development, initial field trial, product

revision, field test, field trial revision, field testing, final revision and dissemination and implementation.

Development includes the production of a handbooks and android applications, with validation from media

expert and material expert. Data collection instruments that used are including interview guidelines, product

evaluation sheets, and response questionnaire sheets. The results of this study indicate that (1) the resulting

augmented reality product is feasible and effectively used as a medium of introduction local flower in

Tomohon. (2) The feasibility of this product is supported by the results of an assessment carried out by

material experts and media experts on product quality. (3) the application has run well and can be used

properly.

1 INTRODUCTION

Tourism is very important for an area that will get

income from existing tourism objects. Tourism is

also a commodity that is always needed by every

individual, because the activity of travelling for an

individual can eliminate work saturation, increase

creative power, relaxation, shopping, business,

knowing the history and culture of a particular

ethnicity, also for health and tourism activities for

spiritualism (Yovcheva et al., 2012; Kasinathan et

al., 2016; Debandi et al., 2018; Ma et al., 2018). By

utilizing free time on work or school days and

supported by increased income, tourism activities

will increase.

Tomohon City is a city known as the city of

flowers, the city of flower Tomohon is one of the

tourist attractions in North Sulawesi. The city of

Tomohon has a very diverse flower collection. The

fertile soil conditions and the cool air make this

place suitable for growing all kinds of flowers.

The importance of promotion and publication

began to be realized by every institution, both profit

and non-profit institutions. Promotion and publicity

are powerful tools to attract public attention,

including in linking visitors to visit tours in the

Flower City of Tomohon. In supporting the

promotion of tourism publicity in the city of

Tomohon, an appropriate and useful solution is

needed. The one of alternative in solving this

problem is developing software based on augmented

reality (AR) that can help provide information

(Carmigniani et al., 2011; Nee et al., 2012;

Yovcheva et al., 2012; Jung et al., 2015; Kasinathan

et al., 2016; Chi et al., 2018; Irwansyah et al., 2018)

about local flowers in the city of Tomohon. AR is

needed as a solution for simulation to visualize

objects from local flowers in Tomohon city.

Simulation is basically a learning strategy that aims

to provide a more concrete learning experience

through the creation of imitations of forms of

experience that approach the real atmosphere (Erik,

2009).

AR technology is one of the breakthroughs used

recently in the field of interaction (Carmigniani et

al., 2011; Chen et al., 2018; Chi et al., 2018). The

use of this technology will be very helpful in

conveying information to users (Debandi et al.,

2018). AR is an interaction technology that

combines the real world and cyberspace. AR is a

Palilingan, V., Komansilan, T., Runtuwene, J. and Tando, R.

Software Development of Local Flower Recognition in Tomohon City based on Augmented Reality.

DOI: 10.5220/0009010503170320

In Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology (EIC 2018), pages 317-320

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technology that combines two-dimensional or three-

dimensional virtual objects into a real three-

dimensional environment and then projects these

objects in real time (Dinh et al., 2013). The

existence of technology that is capable of displaying

virtual objects in the real world is getting a high

response from android users. This can be seen from

one of the Android-based games that use augmented

reality technology, Pokemon Go. Pokemon go is one

of the games with daily active users approaching the

popular Twitter service on the Android platform

(similarweb.com, July 14, 2016).

The purpose of AR is to take the real world as a

basis by combining several virtual technologies and

adding contextual data so that human understanding

as its use becomes clearer. This contextual data can

be audio comments, location data, historical context,

or in other forms. There are currently ARs that have

been widely used in various fields such as medicine,

military, manufacturing, entertainment, museums,

educational games, education, and others

(Carmigniani et al., 2011; Nee et al., 2012; Dinh et

al., 2013; Chen et al., 2018; Chi et al., 2018). In AR

technology there are three characteristics that

become the basis of which are a combination of real

and virtual worlds, interactions that run in real-time,

and the last characteristic is the shape of objects in

the form of 3 dimensions or 3D. The form of

contextual data in this AR can be in the form of

location data, audio, video or in the form of models

and 3D animations.

This AR application was built using Unity where

this application is one of the supporting software for

creating AR and has supported the vuforia library

(target image database) which has been integrated

with various types of platforms (

Fernando, 2013). The

design process includes making markers on each

object, creating 3D objects, animations, and adding

sound features.

Based on that, the researcher developed local

flower recognition software in the city of Tom based

on AR which will help the user as one of the

information centres. This AR-based software

consists of module devices and extension

applications of “*,apk” that can be installed on

android devices. This AR-based software is a

medium that is useful to guide users to understand

independently about local flowers in the city of

Tomohon. The media can be understood as

everything that can convey and channel messages

from sources in a planned manner so that a

conducive learning environment can be created and

the recipient can do the learning process efficiently

and effectively (Munadi, 2013: 7-8).

The purpose of this study was to produce a local

flower recognition software product in the AR-based

tomohon which is suitable for use.

2 METHODS

The steps of research and development developed in

this study are adapted by Borg and Gall (1983)

approaches. The steps include 10 stages: research

and information collecting, planning, developing

preliminary forms of products, preliminary field

testing, playing product revision, main field testing,

operational product revision, operational field

testing, final product revision, and dissemination and

implementation. The product produced in this study

is an AR-based local flower recognition software

product in the form of an “*.apk” format.

The development carried out to make AR-based

software begins with the first stage, namely pre-

survey. The goal is to do research on material needs

analysis what is the topic of discussion on the

products being developed, and what facilities and

infrastructure are available for product application.

The first stage is carried out with the Borg and

Gall development model. The stage is research and

data collection conducted to analyze the situation

and conditions that exist in the field.

The second stage is the research planning stage

which is making materials and designing local

flower recognition software in the city of Tom based

on AR.

The third stage was the development of the initial

form of the product, namely the development of

design and expert validation carried out by two

media experts and two material experts.

The fourth stage was the initial field trial phase,

which was conducted by selecting three

communities randomly and then applying AR-based

local flower recognition software as a media

promotion support.

The fifth stage is to revise the product after the

acquisition of data on the use of AR-based local

flower recognition software products that have been

carried out in the initial field trials.

The sixth stage is the main field trial phase

where the revised product is re-tested.

The seventh stage is revising the results of field

trials conducted in accordance with the acquisition

of data and questionnaire responses. The data is

analyzed and processed to get suggestions for

product improvement.

The eighth phase is the stage of field trials

conducted on the general public.

The ninth stage is the final product revision stage

which is carried out by processing data obtained

from the results of field trials. The final revision is

fixing the media if there are still errors or input from

the user. After the revision is complete, the product

can be used real.

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The last stage is the dissemination and

implementation stage. The stage is to socialize the

use of AR-based local flower recognition software

products that have been tested for feasibility.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This research and development aims to produce a

local flower recognition software product in the city

of Tomohon based on AR, where the object of

research is carried out on the general public. The

development of this product was generated through

several stages based on Borg and Gall's (1983)

development model which included the stages of

research and information collecting, planning,

developing preliminary forms of products,

preliminary field testing, main product revision,

main field testing, operational product revision,

operational product testing, final product revision,

and dissemination and implementation.

Then the product feasibility test is carried out.

The feasibility test was carried out by two material

experts and two media experts. The material expert

evaluates learning material from the material aspects

and aspects of learning. Media experts evaluate the

aspects of appearance, media aspects and technical

aspects. The results of the media evaluation and the

material after revision were used to revise the

product.

In the feasibility test, the results obtained by the

media experts and the material experts can be seen

in Table 1 and Table 2.

Table 1: Results of material experts assessment.

Material expert Average Category

1 3.40 Very feasible

3.40 Very feasible

The assessment results found that the average

total value of the two material experts was 3.40 and

based on the conversion table, this value was

categorized as "very feasible". The results indicate

that the products developed are suitable for use as

multimedia learning for vocational students by

making improvements to the parts according to the

advice of media experts.

Table 2: Results of media expert assessment.

Media expert Average Category

1 2.80 Feasible

3.90 Very feasible

Table 2 shows that the value of validation by

media experts on learning multimedia products was

3.37 and based on the conversion table, this value

was categorized as "very feasible" so that it can be

concluded that local flower recognition software

products in Tomohon city are based This AR is

suitable for use.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Local flower recognition software in Tomohon city

is based on AR through ten stages, namely research

and information collecting, planning, developing

preliminary forms of products, preliminary field

testing, playing product revision, playing field

testing, operational product revision, operational

product testing, final product revision and

dissemination and implementation. The material on

this software product is equipped with text, images,

animation, sound, and video that are packaged in

.apk file format and stored in compact disk (CD).

This multimedia product has been evaluated by two

material experts and two media experts. The results

are categorized as "very feasible" with a total

average of 3.40 in the results of assessment by

material experts and 3.37 on the results of

assessment by media experts so that it can be

concluded that this software product is suitable even

though there are some parts that need to be revised.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thankful the people of Tomohon

city who have supported and helped carry out this

research.

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