A historical audio and video guidebook for an Android smartphone/tablet John Reid September 2011 Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree

Appendix 2 – User guide

Android Launcher icon(circled)

HGuide icon

Once the application has started, the initial opening screen is displayed. From here the user can select the language they wish to use (from the icon at the bottom left), change the selected guidebook (by touching the top of the screen) and start that guidebook by touching the arrow at the bottom right.

Front screen	Guidebook selection wheel

If you press the MENU button while viewing this screen, the following options will be displayed:

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  Settings: This option will display the application settings (described later in this document).
  
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  Help: This will display the standard help file for the application.
  

Once a guidebook has been selected the next screen shows the list of options available (this will vary from guidebook to guidebook).

Guidebook chapter list	Language selection

In the “Old Edinburgh” guidebook, pressing the "Historical Maps" item on the list will display a map of Edinburgh from 1765. A small icon of a person will be overlaid at the user's current position on the map (if the “Display Location” option is enabled in the settings menu).

The Edinburgh 1765 historic map
	The first page of the chapter on St Giles cathedral
	The second page of the chapter on St Giles cathedral

Double tap the screen to zoom into a map or single tap the screen to display the zoom in/out controls at the bottom of the screen. To scroll around the maps, press and move your finger around the screen. If the centre D-pad button is pressed on your device (if it supports it), then the application will toggle a modern map with the most recently viewed historic map. To move the map to your current location, press the down button on the D-pad

Pin markers may be displayed on the maps. Each one indicates a place of interest which, if pressed, will display the pages for that place. These pin Markers can be hidden using a menu option if you wish to see the maps unobscured.

A compass will be displayed at the top right hand corner of the display if the “Enable compass” option is on in the settings menu. The red side of the dial indicates north

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  Legend: This option will display the Legend associated with the current map. A legend gives the name of the streets written as numbers on the historic maps.
  
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  Show/Hide Pins: Selecting this option will toggle the visibility of the pins on the map. This setting will be remembered between sessions.
  
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  Map Info: Selecting this option will display the history of the selected map typically giving a brief description of the map and when it was published. It will also give the latitude and longitude of the current centre of the map (where the cross hair is) and also your location (if known).
  
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  Help: This will display the standard help file for the application.
  

Once has chapter or site has been selected, a series of pages will be displayed typically starting with an image of the site. The user can swipe horizontally to go between pages and swipe vertically to scroll up and down text.

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  Map button: This button will display the location of the current site on a historic map.
  
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  Audio Button: This button will play any audio files associated with the current page. If the "Use Text to Speech" option is enabled in the application, then the text displayed on the page will be converted into audio for the user to listen to.
  
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  Video button: This button will be displayed if the page has a video clip associated with it. If pressed, the video will be played full screen.
  
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  Sign Language button: This button is displayed if the page has a sign language video clip associated with it. If pressed, the sign language video will be played full screen.
  

As shown below, the user also has the option of seeing all the places of interest in the current guidebook in one list rather than just selecting a place from a pin marker on a map. The application can also allow you to and pan around and zoom into and out of engravings and images from the “Engravings” menu option.

Places of Interest	Engravings	Map Flyover

The map flyover option will scroll the map to show you different places and describe in a text box interesting events that occurred there in history.

Notes: *To conserve battery power, the application will only attempt to locate the user’s position when the user is in a map page. The user’s position on the map is programmed to update every 60 seconds although in practise the map may take longer due to power consumption optimisations in devices.