Exploring semantic social networks using virtual reality

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5318 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 599-614

  Halpin, Harry ^a   Zielinski, David J ^b   Brady, Rachael ^b   Kelly, Glenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D interaction; CAVE; Network analysis; RDF; Semantic Web; User interface; Virtual reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CAVES; COMMERCE; DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXTRUSION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

3-D INTERACTION; GRAPH VISUALIZATION; NODES AND LINKS; REALITY VISUALIZATION; SEMANTIC SOCIAL NETWORKS; UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE; USER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 57349127354     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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