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Information Terrains
View generated using a hyperstructure approach
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Populated
Information Terrains
View generated using a hyperstructure approach
Approaches for Generating Visualizations
The team have identified four approaches to generating the visualizations, each applicable to different types of data.
- Benediktine
This approach directly maps fields from data objects into extrinsic and intrinsic dimensions of the displayed objects - for example might be to map the log of a person's age to the x-ordinate, and map a persons job type to the shape of the displayed object.- Statistical
An example of this approach is VR-VIBE. Users specify keywords that they wish to use to generate the visualization and place these keywords in 3D-space. Representations of the documents are then displayed in the space according to how relevant each document is to each of the keywords- Hyper-structures
Some databases support the notion of explicit relations or links between objects (e.g. schema based on entity-relationship models or hyper-media and Network Information Retrieval systems such. Gopher, ARCHIE, WAIS and World Wide Web).- User-implemented
User implementation might be approached in two ways. The first approach is to use real-world metaphors such as a fly-through library interface for a document store; cities, buildings and rooms for organisational information in Directory services; and maps of the physical world for geographical information. A second approach is to allow humans to construct and organise the information terrain themselves on an ad-hoc basis (effectively how files are organised under the desktop metaphor).(Summarized from an essay by the Communications Research Group)
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