“Time-geographical design and analysis of user interaction in virtual environments.” by Joanson and Blom
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Entry Number: 037
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- Time-geographical design and analysis of user interaction in virtual environments.
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Using a method adapted from spatial sociology and regional geography, a visualization technique is presented offering powerful ways of displaying user behaviour in interactive environments, and based on these visualizations, to make improvements in design and narrative.
Time-geography was originally conceived by Swedish prof. Torsten Hägerstrand in the late 1960’s. It is both a scientific method for sampling or simulating empirical material related to people’s movement and activities in time-space, as well as a set of powerful visualization models to graphically represent and aid analysis of this data. Time-geography sets out to construct a perspective on the way people and objects occupy space and interact over time with each other, their surroundings and time itself. It offers a means to study and represent processes and their development within a certain space without decontextualizing them or reverting to treating them as statistical aggregates.
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