Saturday, May 29, 2010

Prototype 5

This prototype is similar to the others, but it:

1) Features only brief descriptions about four locations of the castle of Monemvasia. This content has been carefully crafted to ensure that it is short (but not to short) in terms of length, analytical, and most importantly  simple to understand.

2) The Loquendo Kate text-to-speech voice speaks too fast even in low speed mode. To fix this, I have introduced a 1 sec delay between each sentence of the description. That makes the presentation to flow more naturally and the text easier to understand.

3) Features two types of virtual guides:

a) One virtual guide, that uses full gestures and happy facial expressions. This guide always looks at the user.

b) Another virtual guide that uses no gestures and her face appears always serious. This guide looks away from the user most of the times.

The screenshots below demonstrate both guides:

guides

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