Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds

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Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'02)

London, England

July 10-July 12

ISBN: 0-7695-1656-4

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	Katy Börner, William R. Hazlewood, Sy-Miaw Lin, "Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds," Information Visualisation, International Conference on, pp. 25, Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'02), 2002.

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	@article{ 10.1109/IV.2002.1028752, author = {Katy Börner and William R. Hazlewood and Sy-Miaw Lin}, title = {Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds}, journal ={Information Visualisation, International Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2002}, issn = {1093-9547}, pages = {25}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028752}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Information Visualisation, International Conference on TI - Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds SN - 1093-9547 SP EP A1 - Katy Börner, A1 - William R. Hazlewood, A1 - Sy-Miaw Lin, PY - 2002 KW - Information Visualization KW - Virtual Worlds KW - Spatio-Temporal Maps KW - Social Navigation KW - Usability VL - 0 JA - Information Visualisation, International Conference on ER -

Katy Börner, Indiana University

William R. Hazlewood, Indiana University

Sy-Miaw Lin, Indiana University

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2002.1028752

This paper reports work in progress on the analysis and visualization of the spatial and temporal distribution of user interaction data collected in three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds. Two tools are introduced. The "WorldMapper" reads in a so-called propdump file and creates a 2-D clickable map showing the layout of the world as well as interaction possibilities such as teleports and clickable web links. The second tool visualizes user interaction data such as navigation, chatting, and Web access activity overlaid on the world map. Resulting visualizations are meant to support social navigation, design evaluation and optimization, and the study of virtual communities. Both tools are demonstrated on a 19-person information treasure hunt for information in a 3-D virtual world. The paper concludes with a discussion and an outlook.

Index Terms:

Information Visualization, Virtual Worlds, Spatio-Temporal Maps, Social Navigation, Usability

Citation:

Katy Börner, William R. Hazlewood, Sy-Miaw Lin, "Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds," iv, pp.25, Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'02), 2002

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