MarvinÕs minimal documentation
Table of Contents
Launching
Marvin.......................................................................................................... 2
Welcome screen............................................................................................................ 3
Geo Browser / Global Mode......................................................................................... 4
Geo Browser / Location Cruise Control......................................................................... 5
Geo Browser / Persistent Search Query....................................................................... 6
Geo Browser / Local and Focus Modes......................................................................... 7
Geo Browser / Exploration mode................................................................................. 8
Publishing a document.................................................................................................. 9
Selecting a local document......................................................................................... 11
List Browsing............................................................................................................... 12
Managing your peer network...................................................................................... 13
Launching Marvin
The blue Marvin Icon
Click on it to launch Marvin.
If you never launched Marvin or if you did reset your device Marvin will ask for a valid Google ID. This is asked only the first time you enter Marvin. Beyond that point Marvin will know you.
Welcome screen
This is the next screen after entering your Google ID. If you re-launch Marvin you will arrive directly on this specific screen.
Welcome Screen
Here you can choose different aspects of Marvin.
- First Item let you browse messages geographically and publish messages.
- Second Item let you browse messages with different lists (Published, Private, Peer Feeds, etc) and customize your image, name and pairing key.
- Third Item let you manage your Peer Network.
Geo Browser / Global Mode
This is the global view of Marvin geo browser.
Active area on the screen are left, right, top, bottom and center. This remains true on all 3D activities in Marvin.
Global
Top of the screen shows the active persistent search status.
Bottom of the screen shows information about all fetched messages around a location and the title of the current selected message as an horizontal scrolling dock.
Touch the top of the screen (or Main Menu/Search) to modify the persistent search query.
Touch the bottom of the screen (or Action Key) to focus on the current message.
Touch the right and left (or key left/key right) to switch to next and previous message.
Geo Browser / Location Cruise Control
This feature is accessible in the Main Menu. Once activated, each time the user location change, Marvin will update the current search location in Marvin, by rotating the globe or moving on the map and fetch new objects around the user using the defined persistent search query.
Location Cruise Control just started
Like a Cruise Control in a car: If you change the location manually by rotating the globe or sliding the map, the Location Cruise Control will disengage itself and stop using the location services to avoid using too much battery energy.
Location Cruise Control stopped
Geo Browser / Persistent Search Query
Persistent Search Panel
This screen is the persistent search query panel that opens when you touch the top of the screen in the geo browser.
You can combine a keyword and a type of service with the already active geographical facet the geo browser is using.
By sliding the Marvin
service list to the right or left you can browse objects from your network, the
one you published or the one you received in private.
The Marvin Network
list can also slide left or right to go back to the Marvin Services list.
Geo Browser / Local and Focus Modes
From the geo browser by touching the center of the screen you travel from the Earth (Global) View to the Local view.
Local and Focus
In Local mode Zoom In
and Zoom Out is done using the Up and Down keys.
By touching again the center of the screen in Local mode you enter the Focus mode. Focus mode displays the Map in 3D and shows more information about the message in the bottom tab.
The Focus mode opens the bottom tab and you can then access information about the message author or open the message by clicking the left or right side of it.
Toggle Local and Focus mode by touching the center of the screen. Or hit the Back key to exit Focus and Local modes.
Geo Browser / Exploration mode
From Global, Local and Focus view mode, by selecting the MainMenu/Mode you can choose the standard Map and Satellite views plus a light weight ÒTronÓ Mode witch replace the map with a wireframe and Finally the Marvin Street mode has been built on top of Google StreetView.
In this mode Marvin will try to incorporate into the 3D rendering of Google StreetView the objects surrounding you. The messages will blend into the Google StreetView panorama. Exit this mode by changing the exploration mode again or by hitting the Back key.
Publishing a document
Publishing a message is very simple; first you select a service in which the message will be stored.
The Services to publish in.
Then you enter the textual content and a title and attach an optional document by clicking on the folder icon. See the section ÒSelecting a documentÓ, below in this documentation.
The textual content on the message / The attached document
Then it is time to create a new feed, by default the last feed used will be selected.
A feed is a
combination of a Name and an Audience.
If you never created any feed a default public feed will be created for you.
To create one, select ÒCreate a new feedÓ and then enter a name for this field.
Once this is done you can specify the feed audience (World / All Peers / Peer)
- Messages published in ÒWorldÓ feeds are World readable.
- Messages published in ÒAll PeersÓ Feeds will only be visible by people connected to you.
- Messages published in ÒPeerÓ feeds will be visible by people you select in your peer network using the Ò+Ó Icon that will appear if ÒPeerÓ is selected.
The audience definition / The messageÕs behavior
Last but not least
the behavior of the message defining something very special to Marvin.
If you select
ÒStaticÓ the message will stay where you publish it. (default)
If you select ÒFollow
MeÓ the message will be published and will follow you physically each time you
engage the ÒLocation Cruise ControlÓ in the Marvin geo browser.
Selecting a local document
Selecting a document is done using a 3D Oriented file browser, this activity is called when the user select the folder icon to attach a document to a message when publishing or to specify a user image for the userÕs profile.
As usual, left and right move the current selection to the previous or next file.
Center on a folder open the folder.
Center on a document zoom on the document and ask for a Center touch to confirm or back to cancel.
Touching the top of the screen move up in the folder tree.
Touching the bottom of the screen change the current display mode (also available in the Main Menu)
As visible above at
the browsing starting point Marvin allow the user to pick a document the user
do not have yet by inserting in the 3D file browser the live camera preview.
By selecting this
item the user will be prompt to take a picture by touching the center of the
screen or back to cancel.
List Browsing
List browsing in My Marvin is a very convenient way to manage your already published messages; you can go through them by pages of 10 messages. You can open them and since you are the author, you can disable, enable or delete them.
A disabled message will not be visible anymore by other people than you.
This is the place where you modify your Marvin ID Card including your user name, pairing key and image other users will see.
The different lists available are:
- The list of messages you published.
- The list of messages published to you privately.
- The list of nearby objects.
- The list of your peers to explore their ÒPeer FeedsÓ
Managing your peer network
In this activity you can search for people using their pairing key if they gave it to you somehow. You can also search by Google ID and if the user is not found in Marvin you will have the possibility to send an e-Mail message to him as a notification of your published private invitation.
If one day the invited user launch and use Marvin he will discover the invitation in his Private Message lists.
This is the end of the super lightweight Marvin documentation.
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