Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments

Information visualisation has grown into both a active research area and a commercial field with considerable promise. Meanwhile, virtual environments offer a distinctive way for people to meet and interact across computer networks. This book brings these two domains together, reporting recent research and development and showing how information visualisation can serve as a foundation for the next generation of virtual environments.

The volume is intended as a reference for university courses on information visualisation, user interface design, virtual environments, human-computer interaction and information retrieval. It is also meant for consultants and practitioners. Its 144 full-colour illustrations present a range of notable information visualisation work.