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The iGarden world visualizes user interaction data such as navigation, manipulation, chatting, and Web access activity. It is created based on mined web logs that have been collected in the Memory Palace. It can be used to evaluate the effectiveness and usability, to optimize design properties, or to examine the evolving user community of a world.

The Twin World Approach
iPalace and iGarden are ‘twin worlds’ utilized to design and evaluate 3-D collaborative information visualizations. We believe that the application of information visualization techniques can

• Assist users in making sense of a 3-D virtual world, its information resources, and collaboration possibilities.
• Aid designers with the organization and layout of world content and the selection of interaction possibilities, as well as the evaluation and optimization of 3-D virtual worlds.
• Enable researchers to study virtual worlds and their evolving communities.

	Katy Börner E-mail: katy@indiana.edu Jobs: Project manager, programmer http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy
	David Henry E-mail: dbhenry@indiana.edu Jobs: Oracle database & Cold Fusion http://intrepid.hper.indiana.edu/dbhenry
	Sy-Miaw Lin E-mail: symlin@indiana.edu Jobs: collection development, 2-D we page design http://php.indiana.edu/~symlin/L578/project1/symlin-home.html
	Yu-Chen Lin (Alan) E-mail: yclin@indiana.edu Jobs: chat log visualization & bot programming http://php.indiana.edu/~yclin
	Maggie Swan E-mail: mbswan@indiana.edu Jobs: 2-D web page & 3-D modeling & design http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~mbswan/L578/project1/mbswan-home.html
	Min Xiao E-mail: mxiao@indiana.edu Jobs: 3-D modeling & design http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~mxiao