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@TECHREPORT{Hwa95automaticstructuring,
author = {Rebecca Hwa and Joe Marks and Stuart Shieber},
title = {Automatic structuring of . . . },
institution = {},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
Embedded hypermedia documents (HDs) are becoming more common in aircraft cockpits, power- and industrial-plant control panels, and other user interfaces to complex systems. These hypermedia documents are often large and heavily cross referenced, yet they must support extremely efficient and intuitive user navigation. Designing such documents well is difficult. In this paper, we describe a computer-based approach to structuring HDs. We show how an interface designer can quantify ease of navigation in a way that makes the HD-structuring problem equivalenttoaversion of the well-known optimization problem of graph partitioning. This reduction to graph partitioning is the basis for an implemented system that uses known graph-partitioning heuristics to structure HDs automatically.
Keyphrases
automatic structuring hypermedia document graph partitioning complex system interface designer intuitive user navigation industrial-plant control panel implemented system well-known optimization problem computer-based approach structure hds user interface hd-structuring problem equivalenttoaversion aircraft cockpit graph-partitioning heuristic
