This book looks at how groups of people work together using the information contained within virtual environments, and how to improve these systems in terms of the coordination of collaborative work. It is the first overview of practical issues involved in designing and using Inhabited Information Spaces, and provides information on systems currently in use to show what works and what doesn't.

The first book to study Inhabited Information Spaces in detail Will give the reader an overview of the important aspects of the design of these environments Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Inhabited Information Spaces: An Introduction.- Pure Virtual Environments.- WWW3D and the Web Planetarium.- PlaceWorld, and the Evolution of Electronic Landscapes.- Using a Pond Metaphor for Information Visualisation and Exploration.- Mixed Reality Environments.- City: A Mixture of Old and New Media.- Soundscapes.- The Computational Interplay of Physical Space and Information Space.- Communication.- Communicating in an IIS: Virtual Conferencing.- Getting the Picture: Enhancing Avatar Representations in Collaborative Virtual Environments.- New Ideas on Navigation and View Control Inspired by Cultural Applications.- Presenting Activity Information in an Inhabited Information Space.- Construction.- DIVE: A Programming Architecture for the Prototyping of IIS.- Communication Infrastructures for Inhabited Information Spaces.- Community.- Peer-to-peer Networks and Communities.- Inhabitant's Uses and Reactions to Usenet Social Accounting Data.