Literature Study
In order to gather knowledge about the motion capture domain and to give a better
understanding of the reasons and background of the thesis a literature study was performed.
It is a summary of a variety of published documents in the area relating to this
subject (Taylor 2008).
The gathering of information about the theory of motion capture and especially
optical motion capture, was conducted by studying scientic papers and articles. Like in
normal literature study, the material studied was organized around the research questions
of the thesis and in line with the thesis' purpose (Writing 2010). As for the specic
knowledge of the Qualisys system, in-house documents and specications were studied
and the sta were asked questions.
Documentation and guides on how to use the Android NDK were studied quite
extensively to gain knowledge on how to use the existing C library for the real-time
protocol. First party material, such as Android development guides, as well as third
party documents, as e.g. developer blogs, to widen the comprehension for the subject.
As an aid in the graphical part of the development, many sources for documentation
on OpenGL was used. Ocial, unocial, rst party and third party as well as asking
experienced co-workers, all possible sources of information were used to get a better
picture of the problem at hand.