Hyperdocument Presentation: Facing the Interface (1993) [1 citations — 1 self]
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author = {Jörg Hannemann and Manfred Thüring and Jörg M. Haake},
title = {Hyperdocument Presentation: Facing the Interface},
journal = {GMD Arbeitsbericht},
year = {1993}
}
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Abstract:
To improve the readability of hyperdocuments, it is not sufficient to concentrate on navigation without supporting comprehension. Focusing on this widely neglected issue in hypertext research, interface design has to reduce the mental effort for comprehension which depends on the coherence and the mental workload required from the reader for concurrent activities such as navigation and orientation. Facilitating comprehension of hyperdocuments can be accomplished by coping with three issues: how to impose a coherent structure on the document, how to convey that structure to the reader, and how to support navigation and orientation. In this paper, we describe an approach which specifies these general issues for designing hypertext interfaces in more detail. Based on the resulting comprehensive issue structure, we describe SPI -- a reader interface which demonstrates the close relationship between special design elements for structuring hyperdocuments and their presentation on the screen....
