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My name is Amy Hogan and I am a PhD student at the University of Bath.  I 
wwould very much like you to participate in my online study about Internet 
Interaction and Visualisation - www.cyberviz.co.uk.  Participation only 
takes 10-15 minutes.  You complete a brief questionnaire and a fun interactive 
puzzle using images or descriptions of the Internet.  Find out a bit more 
about it below ...

Please feel free to send this email on to anyone else whom you think might be 
interested in participating.
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How do you envision cyberspace?

** Perhaps you see it as an urban landscape of skyscrapers of pulsing 
information and circuitry? **
** Perhaps a multi-dimensional string puzzle emanating through a hierarchy of 
levels? **
** Or a dynamic, amorphous, gaseous cloud?**

F ind out by participating in my online research - www.cyberviz.co.uk

What’s the study all about?

Given the emergence of the Internet as critical infrastructure upon which 
businesses, organisations, institutions and consumers rely on its proper 
functioning, it is increasingly important for cyberspace to be understood.  
The explosive growth of the Internet calls for the need to organise, filter, 
and present information in ways which allow users to cope with the sheer 
quantities of information available.  The Internet’s hypertextual, abstract 
nature is unfamiliar to most; it is a space that is difficult to comprehend 
and mentally visualise.  Visual metaphors are employed when users try to make 
sense of this foreign environment by describing the unfamiliar in terms of the 
familiar.  In doing so, the technology is made meaningful.  My research will 
illustrate the many ways cyberspace is being envisioned by users of this 
online service.  By combining pictorial representations and Q-Methodology, my 
resarch examines how these visualisations have important consequences for ways 
in which users relate to, interact with and understand cyberspace.  I aim to 
investigate how such knowledge will help users, service providers and analysts 
to comprehend the various spaces of online information, providing 
understanding and aiding navigation.  This research has significant 
educational value by making complex spaces comprehensible. 

Interested?  Go to www.cyberviz.co.uk.  Thank you.


Ph.D. Psychology student
University of Bath
Participate in my online study! - www.cyberviz.co.uk