Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments

A comprehensive introduction to visualization and virtual reality, within the context of developing an interactive distributed information system.

The author shows what is required for building an intuitive and dynamic multi-user environment and draws on real-world problems.

Topics covered include: information visualization; information retrieval; hypermedia; human-computer interaction; cognitive science; and virtual reality.

It also covers VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language).

An electronic version of the book is available on the Internet.