Development of Information Services for Cultural Heritage Site

Gedong Songo Temple through based Virtualization 3D Bilingual

Technology and Location based Service

Agus Suryanto, Yohanes Primadiyono and Budi Sunarko

Semarang State University, Semarang, Indonesia

Keywords: Gedongsongo, Temple, Tourism, 3dmodel, Virtualtour.

Abstract: Central Java Province has several tourist attractions and beautiful historical heritage sites. One of them is

Gedong Songo Temple which is located on the slopes of Mount Ungaran, precisely in Candi village,

Bandungan Sub-district, Semarang Regency. In the development of tourist objects are published with images

mounted on billboards or billboards installed on the roadside. Besides that, tourism objects are more able to

be enjoyed by visitors if there is a map / plan or better known model that describes the actual manifestation

of tourist sites.The purpose of this study are as follows: 1) Create an application in the form of 3D visualization

of Gedong Songo Temple by using the Unity game engine which can later interact to see the condition of the

temple visually and the historical stories of each temple so as to facilitate the Central Java Province tourism

developers in particular Semarang Regency government for Gedong Songo Temple Tourism, 2) Get

immediate benefits if this application is utilized by the general public.

1 INTRODUCTION

The tourism sector as a strategic sector of

development has been able to demonstrate

performance as an increasingly prospective and

reliable sector in sustaining development, the national

economy (Soebagyo, 2012). According to tourism

experts from Egypt (Salah Wahab PhD), tourism

activities should be an activity with an economic

orientation. That view should be used as a basis for

advancing tourism in Indonesia because it is either

directly or indirectly very closely related to the

economic level of the tourist city. Both artificial

tourism objects and natural attractions have the same

great potential to sell their beauty to local tourists and

even foreign tourists (Farmukhit, et al. 2013) . One of

the factors of achieving the target of the visit is that

the tourism sector has a good influence on the

national economy (GDP). In 2019 the tourism sector

in Indonesia is predicted to be the biggest foreign

exchange earner through the oil and gas sector, coal

and palm oil (Triani, et al. 2018).

Central Java Province also has several attractions

and beautiful historical heritage sites. One of them is

Gedong Songo Temple which is located on the slopes

of Ungaran Mountain, precisely in Candi village,

Bandungan Subdistrict, Semarang Regency. This

Hindu heritage site is thought to have been built in the

9th century in the Syailendra dynasty in power in the

land of Java. The beauty of nature and the historical

value of the 9 temples should be able to attract both

local and foreign tourists who want to know the

history of Indonesian culture, especially Central Java.

In the development of tourism objects are

published with images mounted on billboards or

billboards installed on the side of the road. Besides

that, tourism objects are more able to be enjoyed by

visitors if there is a map / plan or better known model

that describes the actual manifestation of tourist sites

(Bahar, 2014).

Maket is one form to show the likeness of the

building from the outside, but the model cannot see

the entire contents of the building and is less

interactive (Shite, et al. 2013). With the development

of technology, models can be replaced with software,

therefore the researcher developed the Gedong Songo

Travel Tutorial as a media based on Unity technology

that will describe 3-dimensional forms and interact

through tourist sites. So as to help the Central Java

Provincial government program "Visit Central Java

2018" in promoting cultural heritage that has the

potential to be very promising to be visited by both

Suryanto, A., Primadiyono, Y. and Sunarko, B.

Development of Information Services for Cultural Heritage Site Gedong Songo Temple through based Virtualization 3D Bilingual Technology and Location based Service.

DOI: 10.5220/0009011803830387

In Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology (EIC 2018), pages 383-387

ISBN: 978-989-758-411-4

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local and foreign tourists because this visualization

plan contains bilingual history of this site.

Researchers took the object of the Gedong Songo

Temple because at this time there was no form of

visualization from the tourism reserve in Semarang

Regency. In addition, the researcher believes that this

temple has the potential to be visited by both local and

foreign tourists. This temple is located in Bandungan

Subdistrict, Semarang Regency, Central Java.

Since 1978, the government has continued to

strive to develop tourism. This was stated in the TAP

MPR no.IV/MPR/1978, namely that tourism needs to

be improved and expanded to increase foreign

exchange revenue, expand employment and introduce

culture.

Tourism development that has been carried

out by both the government and the private sector has

increased the number of tourist arrivals from

domestic and abroad (Soebagyo, 2012).

The Purpose

of making this virtual tour concept is used in several

fields including architecture. 3D modeling with the

concept of Virtual Tour in the field of tourism is

realized by making the exterior and interior models of

the tourist attraction. This virtual tour has been widely

used as an effective promotional tool especially in the

field of tourism through interactive media (Fitri,

2016).

The efforts to promote tourism objects object

must be more creative and keep abreast of current

technological developments. One technology that can

be developed is virtual tour.

Virtual Tour consists of

a collection of photos, images, video or virtual 3D

models from the actual place, which is run using a

desktop computer, information or other electronic

media (Daud, et al. 2016). Virtual Tour can be used

as a media that can bring and bring imagination to life

the users. So as if the user experienced and felt the

real situation

(Suhendra and Fernando, 2016). Virtual

Tour is a technology combining photography with

information that aims to provide overall space

information with a three-dimensional (3D) and

interactive display. Space information in question can

include indoor or outdoor which refers to the concept

where objects can be explored like the real world, can

browse in all directions, see all directions, rotate and

explore the surroundings (Daud, et al. 2016).

Virtual tour that was applied to the gedong songo

temple attraction wanted to be made using unity.unity

3D software is a game engine, which is image

processing, graphics, sound, input software, etc.

which is intended to make games. Unity 3D is a

multiplatform game engine, which is capable of being

published on a standalone (.exe), web-based, android,

IoS, XBOX, or PS3 basis, with a note of getting a

license (Jubaedi, 2017).

2 METHOD

This research use research and development (R&D)

method. Research and Development method is

commonly used in the engineering field where almost

all technology such us products such as electronic

devices, hardware, vehicles, aircraft, weapons and

modern household tools. This method is also used in

natural science, administration, and social science

(Soebagyo, 2012). The purpose of this method is to

produce a particular product and test the effectiveness

of the product. The R&D method uses research that is

needs analysis and requires effectiveness testing to

test whether the product works well. Research begins

with a requirement analysis phase consisting of the

formulation of potential and problems, data

collection, software analysis, and hardware.The next

step is product design. 3D design on this application

using 3DsMax and Sketchup software while Virtual

Tour design is done in Unity 3D game engine.

Products that have been made will be tested by

several testing stages. The research steps undertaken

are explained as Figure 1.

Figure 1: Development Procedures.

This application is expected to fill processes as

follows: (1) This application can visualize Gedong

Songo Temple into 3D objects, (2) This application

capable of displaying information about building and

history of Gedong Songo Temple with narration in

Indonesia and English, (3) This application can

displaying virtual tour technology that allows the user

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to exploring the building like in the real life visiting

Gedong Songo Temple. The application should be

run on mobile device equipped with a gyroscope

sensor and using VR cardboards device. The

operating system that can play this application was

android at least 5.0 version or android lollipop. It is

controlled with gyroscope sensor. The development

of this application used of diagrams namely use-case

diagrams. Figure 2 shows the use case diagrams

illustrates about system functionality.

Figure 2: Use Case Diagram.

The interface was design to be user friendsly and

easy to understans. The UI design were presented in

Figure 3 is the main menu, Figure 4 is the information

menu, Figure 5 is the setting menu, Figure 6 is help

menu and Figure 7 is gameplay.

Figure 3: Main Menu.

Figure 4: Information Menu.

Figure 5: Settings Menu.

Figure 6: Help Menu.

Figure 7: Gameplay.

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Application Virtual Tour Gedong Songo has

minimum spesifications consisted of processor intel

core 2 duo with RAM 2GB, and graphic card VGA.

Interface implementation was done according user

interface design that created earlier. Final UI design

presented in Figure 8 is the main menu, Figure 9 is

the information menu, Figure 10 is the setting menu,

Figure 11 is help menu and Figure 12 is gameplay.

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Figure 8: Main Menu UI.

Figure 9: Information Menu.

Figure 10: Settings Menu.

Figure 11: Settings Help.

Figure 12: Virtual Tour Gedong Songo.

Evaluation divided by three steps: (1) software

testing; (2) design validation testing; (3) user

response testing.

The first step is software testing

using black box method. This step was run by

developer to discover system functional errors.

Software testing results show the system is running

well and there is no functional error. The result of

black box testing is shown in Table 1

Table 1: Black Box Test Results.

Step Test Case

Expected

Results

Actual Result

Status

(Pass/

Fail)

Press

“Indonesia”

button

Should

Displays

Indonesian

Main Menu

Displays

Indonesian

Main Menu

Succesfully

Pass

Press

“English”

button

Should

Displays

English Main

Displays

English Main

Pass

Press

Information

button

Should

Displays

Information

Displays

Information

Pass

Press Help

button

Should

Displays Help

Pass

Press

Settings

button

Should

Displays

Settings

Displays

Settings Menu

Pass

Press Ente

button

Should

Displays

Gameplay

Displays

Gameplay

Pass

Press Exi

button

Should Close

the

Application

No Display Pass

The second step was design validation testing.

Design validation testing is done by material experts

who know the overall design of the tourist objects.

The data analysis technique used in the design

validation test and user usage test is using Likert

scale. Sugiyono (Sugiyono, 2013) suggests Likert

scale is used to measure attitudes, opinions, and

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perceptions of a person to something. The results of

the design validation testing shows the percentage of

assessment of 90.56% which is categorized as good.

The last step was user usage testing. This step

conducted by giving an assessment paper to 20 people

of sample users to use all the features in this

application. Result of user response testing shows

percentage of assessment of 80.56% which is

categorized as good.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Based on research of “Development of Information

Services for Cultural Heritage Site Gedong Songo

Temple Through Based Virtualization 3D Bilingual

Technology and Location Based Service”, it can be

concluded the final application named Virtual Tour

Gedong Songo is run on desktop with operating

system Windows.

This application has been through several stages

of testing that shows the percentage of design

validation validation of 90.56% and the percentage of

user test valuation of 80% which is included in

category is very good to introduce and promote

Gedong Songo Temple.

Users can get to know and learn about one of

historic buildings in Indonesia presented in this

application.

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