The WebBook and the Web Forager: An Information Workspace for the World-Wide Web

The World-Wide Web has achieved global connectivity stimulating the transition of computers from knowledge processors to knowledge sources. But the Web and its client software are seriously deficient for supporting users' interactive use of this information. This paper presents two related designs with which to evolve the Web and its clients. The first is the WebBook, a 3D interactive book of HTML pages. The WebBook allows rapid interaction with objects at a higher level of aggregation than pages. The second is the Web Forager, an application that embeds the WebBook and other objects in a hierarchical 3D workspace. Both designs are intended as exercises to play off against analytical studies of information workspaces. Keywords 3D graphics, user interfaces, information access, WorldWide Web, information workspace, workspace.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Stuart K. Card, George G. Robertson, William York
• Keywords: CHI 1996, Hierarchical 3D Workspace, Human Computer Interaction, Information Workspace, WebBook