Utilização de ambientes virtuais tridimensionais colaborativos em visualização de informação

Abstract

Now thanks to the exponential evolutionary process of the hardware equipments, mainly the related to storage of data, it is possible to store enormous amounts of data, of all possible types, in a centralized base and/or distributed. There are some a little years ago was known what to do with such amount of stored data, in the days you act is known already that the organization that best to dominate the coming information of the is half that more chance will have to be well happened. Based on the mentioned premises is necessary that the responsible for the take of decision use tools of information visualization to aid in the ruling process, doing with that the same if turns more reliable, fast, intuitive and accurate. The information visualization uses techniques of data presentation with the objective of turning them more perceptible and intuitive for the user, however when there is need to present great amounts of data, the visualization is prejudiced for several reasons. To resolve this visualization problem, the use of the Virtual Reality (VR) if it turns essential due to the possibility that this interface provides just as interaction and navigability, characteristics that turn the most productive and interesting visualization. However, usually the ruling of decision is not made by a single person, and the tools in his great majority are mono-users, harming the ruling decision, mainly if the people are distant some of the other ones. With a collaborative environment of data visualization, it is possible to discuss on the same vision of data decreasing the time and unnecessary misunderstandings to the ruling decision. This work has for aim project and implementation a tool of information visualization in an environment three-dimensional virtual collaborative to aid the user in the ruling decentralized decision. Therefore it was used in the development of this characteristic tool of the areas of Database, Information Visualization and Collaborative Virtual Environments.