Ebook: Inhabited Information Spaces: Living with your Data

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Inhabited Information Spaces: An Introduction....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
WWW3D and the Web Planetarium....Pages 11-24
PlaceWorld, and the Evolution of Electronic Landscapes....Pages 25-50
Using a Pond Metaphor for Information Visualisation and Exploration....Pages 51-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
City: A Mixture of Old and New Media....Pages 71-88
Soundscapes....Pages 89-99
The Computational Interplay of Physical Space and Information Space....Pages 101-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Communicating in an IIS: Virtual Conferencing....Pages 115-131
Getting the Picture: Enhancing Avatar Representations in Collaborative Virtual Environments....Pages 133-150
New Ideas on Navigation and View Control Inspired by Cultural Applications....Pages 151-180
Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space....Pages 181-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
DIVE: A Programming Architecture for the Prototyping of IIS....Pages 211-231
Communication Infrastructures for Inhabited Information Spaces....Pages 233-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Peer-to-peer Networks and Communities....Pages 271-289
Inhabitant’s Uses and Reactions to Usenet Social Accounting Data....Pages 291-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-330

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Inhabited Information Spaces: An Introduction....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
WWW3D and the Web Planetarium....Pages 11-24
PlaceWorld, and the Evolution of Electronic Landscapes....Pages 25-50
Using a Pond Metaphor for Information Visualisation and Exploration....Pages 51-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
City: A Mixture of Old and New Media....Pages 71-88
Soundscapes....Pages 89-99
The Computational Interplay of Physical Space and Information Space....Pages 101-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Communicating in an IIS: Virtual Conferencing....Pages 115-131
Getting the Picture: Enhancing Avatar Representations in Collaborative Virtual Environments....Pages 133-150
New Ideas on Navigation and View Control Inspired by Cultural Applications....Pages 151-180
Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space....Pages 181-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
DIVE: A Programming Architecture for the Prototyping of IIS....Pages 211-231
Communication Infrastructures for Inhabited Information Spaces....Pages 233-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Peer-to-peer Networks and Communities....Pages 271-289
Inhabitant’s Uses and Reactions to Usenet Social Accounting Data....Pages 291-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-330
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