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Cyberspace Worlds for Information Retrieval

This paper presents ongoing research into user requirements for 3-dimensional «virtual worlds» to be used as a means of information retrieval. There is a brief review of the literature in the fields in which design of 3-dimensional virtual spaces has been carried out, and the conclusion is reached that this design has usually been done without regard to user preferences. This study has used gro...

Dynamic Information Visualization using 3D Metaphoric Worlds

In this paper we discuss the mechanisms that have been used to deal with the dynamic nature of data in the CyberNet project. The purpose of this project is to study how three-dimensional (3D) metaphoric visualization may help the user in the process of monitoring large amounts of dynamic information. We present the dynamic data model and the visualization model and then focus on the problem of ...

Mapping Information onto 3D Virtual Worlds

This paper presents a strategy for automatically mapping information onto visual parameters in the field of three-dimensional (3D) information visualization. The work presented here is done in the context of researching how 3D information visualization may help when trying to visualize large volumes of dynamic data. The application field within which this work has been conducted is using 3D inf...

A Largest Common Subsequence-based Distance Measure for Classifying Player Motion Traces in Virtual Worlds

As first-person based computer games and online virtual worlds become increasingly popular, the problem of developing classification models for player motion traces becomes increasingly important.The key applications of developing such models includes building player profiles for adaptive game play, identifying cheating in theform of bots and detecting, and curbing gold farmer activity. In this...

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