final proposal and reflection

The final proposal consists of a physical bike kept at the place by bike frame and just one screen in front of the bike. So the full system will not take up much space and can easily transfer to other places for display.The bike has one controller on each brake and arduino yun sensor attached to the back wheel.

Based on the memories of Edinburgh, the system provides a memory tour through cycling around the city.Users firstly get on the bike, press left brake to enter the route choosing interface where they can continue using left brake to choose one route from three options, right brake to start. Once begin, the video forward in the screen will show the street view of Edinburgh.When users accelerate the bike, the video will goes faster and faster. When users are approaching a landmark that we labeled in the video, the pop-up tip will instruct users that grabbing the left brake can see full story of the landmark.After that there will be pop up images and text that we collected from database when users arrive the corresponding landmark.

An effective and usable user interface requiring the minimal number of steps to perform a task and giving the instruction in right time is a significant part of the system. The improved UI give instructions to users step by step, avoiding learning costs.What’s more, the improved one contains more game components.

In the future, the system can be linked directly with Edinburgh collected website’s data. However, the API of Edinburgh Collected better be synchronize with the activity of the users interaction and with the content of their pages. In other words, any change committed to the data, for instance, create, update, or delete a memory, should be reflected directly on the data that is provided in API.

Suppose the API are synchronized directly with the Edinburgh Collected data; this can help us using the data online which might be linked with other online services, such as, street view and map services provided by Google. This combination of the Edinburgh collected, and Google street view services give users more realistic experience with the data. Moreover, it is going to give the users more path chooses. In conclusion, the system have much data that can users new experience every time they use the Bike.

To achieve this with our project, the data have to be retrieved in a rapid fashion. Which means the data from both resources Edinburgh Collected and Google Street view have to be cached (has temporary copy) to reduce delay and make the virtual journey more interactive and engaging. Moreover, we would like to add other options that help in changing the direction, such as, turning left and right, which can be achieved by adding sensor that senses the user touring the bike handlebar.