The London Walkthrough in an Immersive Digital Library Environment.
Robert J.K Jacob, Leonidas Deligiannidis · 2005
A new approach to browsing digital libraries is presented in this paper. This approach enables users to comprehend and digest large amounts of information easily. Our approach, which extends Shiaw’s research [31], takes advantage of fully immersive Virtual Reality Environments to preserve context even when a user focuses on a single item. Currently, in web-based digital libraries, users can either get an overview of the context or focus on a single item, but not simultaneously, sacrificing the context view. Our approach eliminates this focus versus context problem where a small focus, such as a web page, competes for the limited screen space of a computer monitor with a large context, the collection of information.