A multi-dimensional human computer interface using information categorisation and visualisation

摘要

Volumes of electronic data present difficulties for human retrieval and assimilation, even with search engines. Using a structured Metadata framework with multi-dimensional information items and combinations into "events" and "structures", there are opportunities for human processing, location, retrieval and understanding of content. A system is presented for information and knowledge interaction within a multi-dimensional representation interface, together with the ability to interact with the representation elements in way analogues to how humans operate within the physical world, with the facility for individual or multiple person usage of the structure from similar or dissimilar devices, simultaneously or successively, together with the use of visual and other cues to present, store and process information and electronic interactions within a multi-dimensional information space, and to share, or not, some or all of the information. The information representation method defines a novel user interface, and underlying database structure, for information classification, differentiation and co-ordination.