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Twin Worlds: Augmenting, Evaluating, and Studying Three-Dimensional Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities

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New approaches and tools are required to inform the design and implementation of 3-dimensional (3-D) digital cities and to steer the growth of their virtual communities. This paper argues to apply information visualization techniques and to utilize Twin Worlds — pairs of virtual worlds in which one world is devoted to visualize user interaction data collected in the other world — to augment, evaluate, and research the digital cities of tomorrow. The approach is exemplified by means of an abstract scholarly digital city: A 3-D collaborative Memory Palace — a shared resource of online documents (web pages, papers, images, videos, software demos) for faculty and students at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University — and its twin, Mirror Garden — a second 3-D world that visualizes user interaction data collected in the Memory Palace.

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  1. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 10th Street & Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Katy Börner

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Börner, K. (2002). Twin Worlds: Augmenting, Evaluating, and Studying Three-Dimensional Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_20

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