Aim: The main aim of this assignment is to develop a high level systems architecture. The project will be developed as a group (2-3 students). The systems architecture will be broken down into individual sub-architectures. Each member of the team will produce a report concerning their sub-architecture. The team as a whole will produce and present the total architecture as an oral presentation to the class. The presentation and report are due on the same date. The individual abstract is due on an earlier date. The group must use a common architecture style. The group must use a common architecture model and notation when defining the architecture. Your system will be a large scale spatial augmented reality for design and prototyping system. There are two papers which provided a specification for the final system: 1. M. R. Marner, R. T. Smith, S. R. Porter, M. M. Broecker, B. Close, and B. H. Thomas, “Large Scale Spatial Augmented Reality for Design and Prototyping,” Handbook of Augmented Reality, pp. 231-254, 2011. 2. B. H. Thomas, G. S. Von Itzstein, R. Vernik, S. Porter, M. R. Marner, R. T. Smith, M. Broecker, B. Close, S. Walker, S. Pickersgill, S. Kelly, and P. Schumacher, “Spatial augmented reality support for design of complex physical environments,” in Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, 2011, pp. 588- 593. The final system does not have to include all the requirements from the two papers, but a coherent and complete system must be designed. The space restrictions of the final report will prevent all the details from
being included. Remember this is a high level document. During the tutorials students may gather more details. Part 1 Requirements for Individual Abstract [20 marks] The length of the abstract is 300 words. This defines the particular portion of the software architecture you will be design. 1. Provide a short overview of the sub-architecture. 2. Provide a short description of how your sub-architecture connects with the other portions of the systems architecture. 3. Please do not go over the word limit, as over long abstracts may incur marks to be deleted. Part 2 Requirements for Individual Report [60 marks]: 1. [10 Marks] Quality of presentation. Please use the formatting rules for the IEEE VR conference. Clarity of writing and presentation will be marked. See: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html 2. [10 Marks] Define the stakeholders for your sub-architecture. 3. [20 Marks] Define the sub-architecture 4. [10 Marks] Define the limitations of your sub-architecture. 5. [10 Marks] A summary providing an insight for the reader on the overall aspect of this sub-architecture. Part 3 Requirements for Group Presentation [20 marks]: The presentation will be 10 minutes in length. There will one presentation for the entire group. Everyone does NOT have to talk during the presentation. It is okay for just one person to make the presentation. Everyone in the group will receive the same mark. 1. [5 Marks] Quality of presentation. 2. [5 Marks] Description of overall architecture. 3. [10 Marks] How each of the sub-architectures are combine and provide a complete architecture. Due Date: See the course web page.