DIGITAL ANIMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA ANDROID APPLICATION WITH AUGMENTED REALITY

Abstract

In this era of technology, smartphone is one of the most currently developing. One of the currently trending and developing technology in a smartphone is augmented reality. Augmented reality has been applied in many various fields such as entertainment, medical, game, and education. Education is one of the most important field, therefore people start to get an education since a child. Education for children such as animal learning with an encyclopedia can expand the imagination and knowledge of children about kinds of animals. However, encyclopedia has some deficiency in how the children learn, the learning is limited to reading and looking at the pictures. Therefore, implementing augmented reality to animal encyclopedia may overcome those deficiencies. This thesis will discuss the development of Digital Animal Encyclopedia Android Application with Augmented Reality. This application will have several features that can make learning more interactive, interesting, and easy to use such as showing animals in moving 3D object, information of the animals, and make sounds of the animals through a camera in a smartphone.