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VL
1999
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
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 informa...
Augusto Celentano
VRML
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
COBUILD
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Matching Information and Ambient Media
Ambient media have recently been introduced as a means to present information in our surrounding space in subtle and unmonopolizing ways, promoting peripheral awareness. This paper...
Albrecht Schmidt, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Michael B...
IV
2008
IEEE
140views Visualization» more  IV 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Creating Local Geographies for Map-Based Cyber Navigation
Although Internet and WWW phenomena are often described using spatial metaphors, the commonest means of geographic orientation - the map - is little used in online navigation. Map...
Sabine Cikic, Sabina Jeschke, Fritz Lehmann-Grube
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Two worlds apart: bridging the gap between physical and virtual media for distributed design collaboration
A tension exists between designers' comfort with physical artifacts and the need for effective remote collaboration: physical objects live in one place. Previous research and...
Katherine Everitt, Scott R. Klemmer, Robert Lee, J...