Full Description
In an era when increasing numbers of people are conducting research and interacting with one another through the internet, the study of 'Inhabited Information Spaces' is aimed at encouraging a more fruitful exchange between the users, and the digital data they are accessing. Introducing the new and developing field of Inhabited Information Spaces, this book covers all types of collaborative systems including virtual environments and more recent innovations such as hybrid and augmented real-world systems. Divided into separate sections, each covering a different aspect of Inhabited Information Systems, this book includes: How best to design and construct social work spaces; analysis of how users interact with existing systems, and the technological and sociological challenges designers face; How Inhabited Information Spaces are likely to evolve in the future and the new communities that they will create.
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.- Inhabitant's Uses and Reactions to Usenet Social Accounting Data.
