Inhabited Information Spaces: Living with your Data

David N. Snowdon · Elizabeth F. Churchill · Emmanuel Frécon

Apr 2006 · Springer Science & Business Media

About this ebook

In an era when increasing numbers of people are conducting research and interacting with one another through the internet, the study of ‘Inhabited Information Spaces’ is aimed at encouraging a more fruitful exchange between the users, and the digital data they are accessing. Introducing the new and developing field of Inhabited Information Spaces, this book covers all types of collaborative systems including virtual environments and more recent innovations such as hybrid and augmented real-world systems. Divided into separate sections, each covering a different aspect of Inhabited Information Systems, this book includes: How best to design and construct social work spaces; analysis of how users interact with existing systems, and the technological and sociological challenges designers face; How Inhabited Information Spaces are likely to evolve in the future and the new communities that they will create.

About the author

Dr. David Snowdon received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota & began the Nun Study there in 1986. In 1990 he moved the Nun Study to the Saunders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky, where he also teaches in the Department of Preventive Medicine & Environmental Health & in the Gerontology Doctoral Program. He is the author of numerous scientific articles & has presented his findings at leading scientific conferences in North America & Europe.