Amy,
        I went to this website listed in this email and did the survey.
My questions is that I used to have a program(over a year+ old) that I
could browse machines and network locations and the interface looked
exactly like picture #26.  I am curious as the program that generated
this picture.  I am working on a program for browsing a network in 3D
using a gaming engine/C++ and would like to study this interface
further.  I was actually writing the program to function identical to
the one I used previously.  Any information would be helpful.

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Thanks for your time,
Mark Yarian
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From: Mapping and visualising Internet infrastructure and Web space
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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:11 PM
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Subject: [MAPPING-CYBERSPACE] Online Internet Visualistion Study


*Apologies for any cross posting*
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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