Navigating the virtual library: a 3D browsing interface for information retrieval

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Title

Navigating the virtual library: a 3D browsing interface for information retrieval

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University of Waikato

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Description

An interface is described for graphically navigating a large collection of documents, as in a library. Its design is based on the metaphor of traversing a landscape. Documents are depicted as buildings, clustered to form 'towns'. A network of 'roads' connects these towns according to the classification hierarchy of the document set. A three-dimensional scene rendering technique allows the user to view this landscape from different perspectives, and at different levels of detail. At one level,...

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Research paper

Research format

Working or discussion paper

Date created

1994-07

Creator

Rogers, Bill / Cunningham, Sally Jo / Holmes, Geoffrey

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1139

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computer science

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