Animal Kingdom Recognition Application using Augmented Reality

Technology

Sondy Campvid Kumajas, and Trudi Komansilan

Department of Information Technology and Communication Education, Universitas Negeri Manado, Tondano 95618, North

Sulawesi, Indonesia

Keywords: Animal Kingdom Recognition, Augmented Reality, Educational Tool, Mdlc

Abstract: Sometimes students have no ideas what the look like of animals that their teacher talking about. It’s because

schools have no aided tools that can help students to grow their imaginations about that subjects. The

objectives of study are to design and build an application of Animal Kingdom by using Augmented Reality

technology that can be used on Android mobile devices. The method used the Multimedia Development

Life Cycle (MDLC) that the procedures are concept, design, material collection, assembly, testing, and

distribution. The application of Animal Kingdom used Augmented Reality Technology can be built for

helping students in school to learn more informative and imaginary by visual (3D) appearance of the

subjects.

1 INTRODUCTION

Many school students who attend teaching and

learning activities without understanding clearly

about the object being studied. This is especially true

in subjects that learn about objects that have never

been seen by them, for example the world of animal.

For example, how can they understand the shape of

the horn in rhinos while there are no rhinos in their

area. Lack of learning aids that can visualize objects

or animals themselves which results the students

only being able to see from a limited perspective.

Some media to overcoming the problems above

are with printed or digital books, videos, learning

multimedia, articles, or tutorials from the internet.

From these several alternatives, learning multimedia

using augmented reality technology is the best

choice. Multimedia learning referred to in this study

uses an introduction model. The introduction model

is a program that is designed to act as an

identification application for students.

Therefore, it is deemed necessary to build

learning multimedia application aids which in this

study, Animal Kingdom Recognition Application

using Augmented Reality technology that can

provide a more detailed picture of the object being

studied, that can be used by teaching staff in schools

with android-based mobile devices they have.

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

Learning media can be understood as anything that

can convey and channel messages from sources in a

planned manner so that a conducive learning

environment can be created where the recipient can

carry out the learning process efficiently and

effectively (Munadi, 2013: 7-8). In relation to the

learning process, if the media carries messages or

information that aims at instructional or contains

teaching purposes, the media is called learning

media (Arsyad, 2015: 4). Furthermore, Isdianto &

Suyata (2014) describe learning media as anything

that can be used to channel messages and can

stimulate the mind, arouse enthusiasm, attention and

willingness of students to encourage the learning

process in them. Various types of media when

viewed in terms of technological development by

Seels & Glasgow (1990: 181-183) is divided into

two broad categories, namely the traditional media

and the latest technology media. Furthermore

Asyhar (2012: 76) argues in general, there are four

types of learning media, namely visual media, audio

media, audio-visual media, and multimedia. Based

on the above definition it can be concluded that

learning media is information that contains messages

and becomes a stimulus for students who are used to

convey information. Based on the types of learning

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Animal Kingdom Recognition Application using Augmented Reality Technology.

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media available, this study focuses on developing

media types of multimedia learning.

Augmented Reality (AR) is a tool that connects

between three-dimensional visualization, the real

environment, and the use of code that can be seen as

a bridge that binds the real world to cyberspace

(Fedeli & Rossi, 2014: 10). In many cases AR

technology involves special devices such as glasses,

head-mounted displays, and smartphones. AR allows

users to see virtual objects two or three dimensions

projected against the real world. Johnson, et al.

(2011: 16) explains the educational use of mobile

devices and the potential of AR technology which

states that, one of the most promising aspects is that

it can be used for visual and highly interactive forms

that can display data to the real world as easily as

simulating a process dynamic. Augmented Reality is

needed as a technology for simulations to visualize

objects from these animals.

3 RESEARCH METHODS

This study has the aim of developing an application

for more interesting animal world recognition using

Augmented Reality by utilizing the camera features

of Android mobile devices. The research method

used in this research is MDLC (Multimedia

Development Life Cycle) where this method has 6

stages, namely concept, design, collecting material,

assembly, testing and distribution (Luther, 1994) as

shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Multimedia development life cycle (MDLC)

methodology.

First stage is concept, in which researcher need

to decide what the purposed of his research, what

kind of user will use it and how it will distribute.

Second, at the design stage, the researcher will begin

the design of the application; the design will be in

the form of a storyboard and the design of the

navigation structure in the form of a menu hierarchy.

The third is the Obtaining Content Material

stage, where at this stage, researchers have collected

materials and materials in accordance with

applications such as logic links, scripts, images,

animation, music and videos. The fourth stage is the

build phase, which the building of the application is

beginning.

The fifth stage is the testing phase when the

application has been completed. And the last stage

or sixth stage is how we chose to distribute the

application to user.

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This research aim to build an application that can be

used as educational aid tools in such topic Animal

Kingdom Recognition using Augmented Reality

technology. This research using MDLC

methodology with 6 (six) stages.

First stage is concept; in this process researcher

decided the application made is aimed at school

students who are accompanied by teaching staff.

Development of an application to introduce the

animal kingdom and the application will build using

Augmented Reality technology made based on

mobile platform (android) with the extension .apk

(Android Package File).

Second, at the design stage, the researcher will

begin the design of the application, with making of

storyboard and the design of the navigation

structure. In this stage the opening will be design

too, it will display the splash screen page before

entering the main menu.

The third is the Obtaining Content Material

stage. At this stage, researchers have collected

materials such as logic links, scripts, images,

animation, music and videos.

The fourth stage is the making/ build phase,

including the background design of the application

and determining the button icon that will be used.

After processing the content has been made, then the

next process is making an application using Open

Space 3D where all the content that has been

wrapped with the script and also the logic link will

be processed and made into a .xos format project.

The fifth stage is the testing phase when the

application has been completed, the system is tested

and tried by users and media experts where the test

aims to find out whether the application is in

accordance with the plan and whether already

functioning properly or not yet suitable for use.

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After the testing phase on the application, then in

the final stage or distribution stage, researcher

compiling application in *apk format so that it can

be run on an Android platform smartphone device.

Figure 2 shows example of animal appearance.

Figure 2: Example of animal appearance.

5 CONCLUSIONS

An application of Animal Kingdom Recognition

already built. It can be use as educational aids tools

that can help students to learn more interactively and

imaginary. It used Augmented Reality technology

that can visualize 3D animals object. With that kind

of visualization researcher hope that students will

more eager to learn, more understandable and more

enjoy learning and studying.

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