360° image viewing knowledge based on herbs / Muhd Syahir Shamsul Baharin

Malaysia is one of country which has a vast collection of biodiversity information of plant species. Since there are many plant species in this country, most Malaysian has turn to traditional medication as their alternative to cure disease and due to the highly cost and the side effect of the modern medicine. Furthermore, most people are believed that traditional medication by using herbs are free form unwanted side effects. There are lots of identical herb appearance out there, but the benefit may be different. Some people may have confused to differentiate and identify between the identical herb and most of the current herb knowledge-based system in market, the image being presented were in 2D images and the picture are seems crowded with the other herbs in one picture. The method used to make the 360° herbs images done is by shooting the herbs in studio with full 360° view of the herbs. This 360° image viewer have been compiled in HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in order to make the image slider keep looping in 360° view. This system also completes with others image of the particular herbs and also a tutorial video on how to use that herb as the traditional medication. The evaluation and validation has been made by having few targeted users to test the system whether the system is useful or not. The result has shown that, this system is way more better and useful in identifying and differentiate between identical herbs. In addition, user can get more information just by using this knowledge-based system project. In conclusion, this system has success and accomplished by producing an effective way to deliver the knowledge in this knowledge-based system project.