Title :
Virtual worlds as metaphors for Web sites exploration: are they effective?
Author :
Celentano, Augusto
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Inf., Univ. Ca Foscari di Venezia, Torino, Italy
Abstract :
The article 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
Keywords :
hypermedia markup languages; information resources; information retrieval; online front-ends; user interfaces; virtual reality; DTD documents; VR interfaces; Web navigation metaphor; Web site exploration; Web site structure; XML; desktop virtual reality; information classification; structured Web sites; virtual worlds; Data mining; Electrical capacitance tomography; Helium; Layout; Organizing; Prototypes; Virtual reality; Visualization; World Wide Web; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0216-4
DOI :
10.1109/VL.1999.795903
