A Virtual Environment for Exploring Relational Information

Understanding the complex relationships between data entities within an application has become essential for many applications. However because the data sets in many applications normally are large, high dimensional, posses high connectivity and are dynamic, exploring the relationships wtihin them remains a challenging task for users. In this paper we discuss the visualisation and exploration of the relational information of these data sets using a Virtual Environment (VE). We believe that the useability and exploratory metaphors that are available in a VE can be exploited to gain a deeper understanding of relational information than using traditional 2D display device based technologies.