From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw) Subject: Re: Databases and VR: Questions Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 15:09:00 -0600 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada In article David Anderson writes: > One of the largest classes of computer applications is database > management systems. As a database manager I'm interested in what > can virtual reality bring to database management and how will > virtual reality change how we conceptualize data. > > David Anderson University of Washington Once again.. Take a look at CHI 91 proceedings, and the accompanying videotape. Mackinlay Robertson and Card have 3 articles in a row (with a cyclic permutation on authors for each paper), pages 173-194. These papers describe their Information Visualizer system, including various interaction techniques for viewing largeish databases. An example is an organizational structure browser. Search is done in a database of facts about each person (eg, title or office location) and a database of autobiographies. Users can search for other people with biographies similar to a selected person's biography. One organizational chart contained the top 650 Xerox Corp executives. Since this requires 80 pages on paper, this is the first time the organization chard could be seen in one visualization. Some of the techniques are also described in the January 1991 Byte. -- Chris Shaw University of Alberta cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca Now with new, minty Internet flavour! CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !