Virtual Worlds as Metaphors for Web Sites Exploration: Are They Effective?

This work discusses the effectiveness of desktop virtual reality as a metaphor for navigating through information in structured Web sites. The work is based on a model for information classification and an architecture for generating VR interfaces from XML and DTD documents describing the Web site structure.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: VL
• Authors: Augusto Celentano
• Keywords: Desktop Virtual Reality, Structured Web Sites, Visual Languages, VL 1999, Web Site