| 摘要 |
<p>The result of a data retrieval request performed by a user is usually presented as rows and columns of text and numbers. The user needs to read the data in order to understand the result. The invented method allows presenting the result of a data retrieval request, by transforming the lists of data produced by the inquiry in an animated and controllable (from the user) three-dimensional image of a simulated virtual landscape. This method ensures a visual immediate understanding of the result (look instead read) and an easier and more natural data-handling manner (movement instead scroll). The aspect of this 3D virtual space is constructed in such a manner that the user feels the relation between his formulated inquiry and the resulting 3D space. The customization of the 3D landscape aspect happens by appropriately interpreting the type of the selected data, the selection criteria, the data contain and the characteristics of user itself. An equivalent virtual movement in the virtual space corresponding to the data translates any form of scroll necessary to the user to explore the selected data. The method consequently allows the user to visually recognize the contain of his data retrieval request, ensuring the understanding by feeling without reading. The method is applied in the implementation of software that allows translating the results of a data inquiry in the displaying of the mentioned 3d virtual landscape.</p> |
