Books

Books : reviews

Chaomei Chen.
Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments.
Springer. 1999

Information Visualisation is a fast growing research field and an industry with tremendous potential. Virtual environments provide a unique medium for people to communicate and interact with each other over computer networks.

Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments links the two areas together and presents the latest research and development, highlighting the potential of information visualisation as an enabling technology in the design of new generations of virtual environments.

The focus of the book is not only on individual techniques, but also on the inspiration, extensibility, and adaptability resulting from a synthesis of these techniques and design principles.

This book will be an invaluable source of reference for courses in Information Visualisation, User Interface Design, Virtual Environments, HCI, and Information Retrieval, as well as being a useful resource for consultants and practitioners.

The book contains 144 wonderful colour images of intriguing and influential works in information visualisation.