Inhabited Information Spaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Inhabited Information Spaces: An Introduction

      • Elizabeth Churchill, David Snowdon, Emmanuel Frécon

      Pages 3-8

3. Pure Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. WWW3D and the Web Planetarium

      • Mårten Stenius, David Snowdon

      Pages 11-24

   3. PlaceWorld, and the Evolution of Electronic Landscapes

      • Steve Pettifer, Jon Cook, James Marsh

      Pages 25-50

   4. Using a Pond Metaphor for Information Visualisation and Exploration

      • Olov Ståhl, Anders Wallberg

      Pages 51-68

4. Mixed Reality Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. City: A Mixture of Old and New Media

      • Matthew Chalmers

      Pages 71-88

   3. Soundscapes

      • Tony Brooks

      Pages 89-99

   4. The Computational Interplay of Physical Space and Information Space

      • Enric Plaza

      Pages 101-111

5. Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Communicating in an IIS: Virtual Conferencing

      • Adrian Bullock

      Pages 115-131

   3. Getting the Picture: Enhancing Avatar Representations in Collaborative Virtual Environments

      • Mike Fraser, Jon Hindmarsh, Steve Benford, Christian Heath

      Pages 133-150

   4. New Ideas on Navigation and View Control Inspired by Cultural Applications

      • Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, John Bowers

      Pages 151-180

   5. Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space

      • Wolfgang Prinz, Uta Pankoke-Babatz, Wolfgang Gräther, Tom Gross, Sabine Kolvenbach, Leonie Schäfer

      Pages 181-208

6. Construction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. DIVE: A Programming Architecture for the Prototyping of IIS

      • Emmanuel Frécon

      Pages 211-231

   3. Communication Infrastructures for Inhabited Information Spaces

      • David Roberts

      Pages 233-267

7. Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269

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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 ‘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.

• Access
• Computer Mediated Communication
• Hardware
• Information Spaces
• Information Visualisation
• Internet
• information visualization
• networks
• programming
• user interface
• virtual reality
• visualization

• Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

  David N. Snowdon

• FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., Paol Alto, USA

  Elizabeth F. Churchill

• Swedish Insitute for Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

  Emmanuel Frécon

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