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- From: edwardc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Edward Carter)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Re: Novel navigation techniques
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.095650@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 09:56:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.004816.4084@memstvx1.memst.edu> <martin.721866622@menaik> <1992Nov15.195656.4089@memstvx1.memst.edu> <1992Nov23.021419.22772@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <1992Nov23.021419.22772@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
- edf250y@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Marks) writes:
- # Just like developing decision-support systems (effectively), the key
- # to building intuitive hypertexts for the reader lies in the developer
- # begin able to abstract the cognitive processes that the reader undergoes
- # when examining the material. What connections would this reader logically
- # make? If the proposed audience is a large and varied group, then make
- # the links as obvious and objective as possible, then allow the users to
- # dynamically add/amend/delete the links. I'm not sure if many (any?)
- # products allow this dynamic structuring though?
- #
- # --
- # Andrew J. Marks
- # Student Number: 11278056
- #
- # Office: E2.07
-
- The problem with this, as with so many attempts to make Hypertext easier
- to use, is that the reader of the Hypertext can't be assumed to have any
- knowledge of the information in the HT before they start to use it.
-
- If they don't know the contents of any other node, how can they specify
- that they want to go there? Once they *DO* know the layout of the HT,
- then any problems they had with navigating, etc. through the HT will
- have been sorted out [by defn].
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