Social diffusion patterns in three-dimensional virtual worlds

Information Visualization

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 182-198

  Börner, Katy ^a   Penumarthy, Shashikant ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative environments; data mining; geographic information systems; group behaviour; information visualization; social diffusion; social visualization; spatial navigation; virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998075549     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500050     Document Type: Article

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