Integrating Spatial, Semantic, and Social Structures for Knowledge Management

In this paper we describe a unique type of knowledge management systems virtual reality-enabled multi-user virtual environments with spatialised semantic structures. They are designed to enable users to exploit emerging knowledge structures shared among a group of people and engage in social interaction with concurrent users in the virtual world. The design principle is illustrated by an example of how a heterogeneous collection of accumulated documents and user profiles is visualised. Resultant spatial structures reveal not only interdocument relationships, but also the interconnectivity between user profiles and documents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Chaomei Chen, John Davies
• Keywords: Biometrics, HICSS 1999, Knowledge Structures, Multi-User Virtual Environments, User Profiles