Web Forager (18 Oct 2004)
WebForager and WebBook appeared in 1996 in the Xerox PARC labs as a first approach to the information foraging theory. Three-dimensional metaphors like the one we have seen in the book or other similar ones haven’t yielded, up to now, better results than other more abstract metaphors. Possibly due to the fact that doing the same things in the virtual world that we do in the real world maybe doesn’t give more added-value to our insight.
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