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(a)
Retrieving the products
about keyword
(b)
Selecng records
Template
SelectionBox
Request Form
KeywordSearchBox
Iterang the same
operaon
Retrieving similar products
WorldBottleBox
(c)
Visualizing similar products
spaces in parallel
(d)
Moving to the related
products space
Fig. 2.
Successive navigation through WorldBottle using the Similar Products Search
the current working space, vice versa. To construct the navigatable structure
through a large information space, WorldMirror and WorldBottle provide the
functions described in Fig. 1 (iii).
Example in Fig. 2 shows an application for exploring similar products in a 3D
environment using the Amazon Web service (AWS).First, the user can examine
products from keywords using the KeywordSearch. The records retrieved from a
KeywordSearch are visualized in the current space (Fig. 2 (a)) using a mechanism
described in [3]. If the user is interested in the related products information about
a visualized prouct, the user can select a product dynamically and search the
related products about the selected product from the SimilaritySearch (Fig. 2
(b)). The records retrieved from the SimilaritySearch are visualized in another
space. When the user approaches the selected product, WorldBottles appear,
and the user can observe the related products about any selected one from the
current space (Fig. 2 (c)). If the user wants to compare related products about
several products, the user can select more than one product and visualize in
multiple spaces (Fig. 2 (b)(c)). The user can enter the related product space, in
which there are many products that the user prefers (Fig. 2 (d)). The user can
explore these related products recursively (Fig. 2 (d)-(b)).
