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The application is great in capacity and demanding hardware.

The purpose of the application is to provide teachers with groups of pupils, but also to individual users, the ability to play without financial cost a Karagiozis show, providing them with all the necessary technical equipment, such as figures, scenery and background music for each character .

The determining factor that helped in the implementation of this application was the fact that the figures did not need to be designed from the outset as the Spathario Museum (www.karagiozismuseum.gr) has prepared the figures and the scene in electronic form (pdf).

The figures that do three moves:

• Horizontal-vertical-joint movement

• Horizontal rotating 180 degrees

• leaning forward of the figure by 45 degrees.

Instructions

The / the user / s can add and remove the curtain as many stunts want. To view the curtain a figure, the user must press the icon with the face of the figure at the top of the screen. Then, where the curtain touched finger the figure appears. The orientation of the figure depends on the area where the user touches the finger. If touches a finger from the medium and to the left of the screen, the figure will be facing to the right. If you touch a finger through the middle and to the right side of the screen, the figure will be facing left. After the figure has appeared on the curtain, the movement of using the touch ston torso of the figure.

The user can move a figure horizontally, vertically and in mixed traffic. To bend the figure by 45 degrees, the user should touch the area of ​​the head with one finger and then touch another finger on the nose area of ​​the figure. . When the user stops touching the nose of the figure, it automatically returns to its rest position.

The movement of the hand is free (is moved in all directions). When the user ceases to control the hand, it automatically returns to its rest position freeing the user from the return process.

To rotate the figure by the horizontal axis, the user again presses the icon of the figure initially pressed to display the figure

Selection and playback

The user is able to select and play for each of the 12 figures a sound or a musical piece. The choice of sound, for example Karagiozis made as follows: First, the user presses the icon with the face of Karagiozis. This action has the effect appears in the left part of the screen the person Karagiozis slightly enlarged and a bucket

Simultaneously displayed in the center of the screen a list that contains all audio files stored on the tablet. When the user selects the audio file you want, the list disappears.

To play the audio file, the user should touch the finger the magnified image Karagiozis left. If the user wants to select another audio file then touches the bowl and repeat the above procedure.