Inhabited Information Spaces Living with your Data /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Snowdon, David N. (Editor), Churchill, Elizabeth F. (Editor), Fr©♭con, Emmanuel. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2004.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 29
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.
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In an era when increasing numbers of people are conducting research and interacting with one another through the internet, the study of Ớ<U+00dc>Inhabited Information SpacesỚ" is aimed at encouraging a more fruitful exchange between the users, and the digital data they are accessing....

Table of Contents:

• Inhabited Information Spaces: An Introduction
• Pure Virtual Environments
• WWW3D and the Web Planetarium
• PlaceWorld, and the Evolution of Electronic Landscapes
• Using a Pond Metaphor for Information Visualisation and Exploration
• Mixed Reality Environments
• City: A Mixture of Old and New Media
• Soundscapes
• The Computational Interplay of Physical Space and Information Space
• Communication
• Communicating in an IIS: Virtual Conferencing
• Getting the Picture: Enhancing Avatar Representations in Collaborative Virtual Environments
• New Ideas on Navigation and View Control Inspired by Cultural Applications
• Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space
• Construction
• DIVE: A Programming Architecture for the Prototyping of IIS
• Communication Infrastructures for Inhabited Information Spaces
• Community
• Peer-to-peer Networks and Communities
• InhabitantỚ"s Uses and Reactions to Usenet Social Accounting Data.