| Abstract: | The knowledge garden, a collaborative 3-D information visualisation tool, is described in this paper. Since humans are instinctively attuned to a 3-D world, 3-D interactive multimedia information sources offer the possibility of an intuitive and natural way to explore complex ideas, concepts and information. The knowledge garden aims to provide an environment where people can meet colleagues and share relevant information among a community of interest. Information is seen as an organic resource that changes over time, and is represented as plants in a shared-dimensional knowledge garden. Plants are grown from the results of an automatic clustering process whereby Internet resources containing related information are grouped together. Also described are proposed extensions to the garden which would support and encourage the creation of communities of interest and the sharing of tacit knowledge. |
