1. Museum Introduction Component

    1. Description

      2. This component is used in a Museum Application to give the user a short overview about the Museum he/she is going to visit and about the MR Demonstrator used during the visit. With this component the system can provide the visitor information about the exhibitions in the museum, general information about the museum and a general overview about the system provided as well as what to do with the device after viewing all exhibits. Basic hints about how to use the MR Application should be provided to the visitor using this component.

      When the marker is detected, the camera view is frozen by the freeze component. A video is shown on the screen and at the same time the first audio file (Museum Introduction) is played, when the first audio file is finished, a timer (2 seconds) is triggered and after that the second audio file (AR/MR Description) is reproduced, when finished the freeze and the video stop. At any time the oral information can be show as textual information on the screen by clicking on the external TEXT button (this button should be part of the User Interface and properly connected to this button). An additional button could be included for this MR exhibit to repeat it when finished.

      Figure -1 Museum Introduction

    2. List of Components

      3. Here it is a list of the components included in this composed component:

      Tipo

      Nombre

      AndComponent

      andDetected_NotEndAudioARMI

      AndComponent

      andExhibit_NotDetectedMI

      AndComponent

      andText_NotEndAudioMuseumMI

      AndComponent

      andText_PlayingAudioARMI

      AudioComponent

      audioARMI

      AudioComponent

      audioMuseumMI

      Button2DComponent

      buttonRepeatMI

      HubComponent

      hubTextMI

      Image2DComponent

      image2DScreenSaverMI

      MarkerDetectionComponent

      markerDetectionMI

      NotComponent

      notDetectedMI

      NotComponent

      notEndAudioARMI

      NotComponent

      notEndAudioMuseumMI

      OrComponent

      orAndRepeatMI

      Text3DComponent

      textARMI

      Text3DComponent

      textMuseumMI

      TimerComponent

      timerMI

      Video3Dcomponent

      videoMuseumMI

       

    3. In-slots

      4. Name

      Type

      Description

      hubTextMI.in

      boolean

      This slot must be connected to the text button of the user interface. This slot allows the user to ask for textual information.

      andExhibit_NotDetectedMI.in2

      boolean

      This slot must be connected to corresponding exhibit number of the user interface component. If this slot is active, the screensaver of the exhibit will be shown when the marker is not detected.

       

    4. Out-slots

      5. Name

      Type

      Description

      audioARMI.end

      boolean

      Provides the status of the audio component. True when the audid file is finished. False otherwise.

      markerDetectionMI.detected

      boolean

      True when the marker detection component detects the marker and false if the marker is not detected.

       

    5. Main Properties

Each of the composed components defined for the Museum specific domain has lots of properties, which can be configured with the AMIRE Authoring environment. Each composed component has as many properties as the sum of the properties of each component it is composed of. Here are described the main properties:

Name

Type

Description

audioFileName

string

The name of the file containing the audio signal for the AR/MR Description

Name

Type

Description

audioFileName

string

The name of the file containing the audio signal for the Museum Introduction

Name

Type

Description

releasedimageFileName

string

Filename of the background image shown when released the button for the repeat functionality.

toggledImageFileName

string

Filename of the background image shown when toggled the button the button for the repeat functionality.

position

doubleVector

Values (X and Y) that fix the position of the button

dimension

doubleVector

Values (width and height) that fix the dimension of the button

Name

Type

Description

imageFileNames

string

Filename of the image to show. (ScreenSaver image)

position

doubleVector

Values (X and Y) that fix the position of the image

dimension

doubleVector

Values (width and height) that fix the dimension of the image

Name

Type

Description

markerFile

string

File name of the marker pattern.

dampingFactor

integer

Specifies the damping factor

Name

Type

Description

textFileName

string

Name of the file containing the text about the AR/MR Description

xPosition

double

Position x of the text panel on the screen

yPosition

double

Position y of the text panel on the screen

Name

Type

Description

textFileName

string

Name of the file containing the text about the Museum Introduction

xPosition

double

Position x of the text panel on the screen

yPosition

double

Position y of the text panel on the screen

Name

Type

Description

endValue

integer

End value for the timer count

Name

Type

Description

videoFileName

string

Name of the file containing the video to be shown

xPosition

double

Position x of the video frame on the screen

yPosition

double

Position y of the video frame on the screen

relativeSize

double

This parameter represents the proportionality factor of video size (referred to the height) respect to the original video.

 

    1. Default Property Values