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Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation & Visualization in Cyberspace

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  • © 1997

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  1. Peter Gloor
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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Structuring Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 2-3
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    2. A Brief Introduction to Information Retrieval

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 5-17

    3. User Modeling

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 19-27

    4. World Wide Web: an Introduction

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 29-41

    5. Programming the Web

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 43-48

    6. The Seven Design Concepts for Navigation in Cyberspace

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 49-53

    7. Linking

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 55-61

    8. Searching

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 63-70

    9. Sequentialization

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 71-80

    10. Hierarchy

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 81-90

    11. Similarity

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 91-100

    12. Mapping

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 101-124

    13. Guides and Agents

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 125-136

    14. Conclusions

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 137-138

  3. The Cyber-Toolbox

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 140-142
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    2. Cybertools: from Text To Hypertext

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 143-151

    3. Cybertools: Hierarchy with Hiermap, Viewfinder, and Navigation Diamond

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 153-156

    4. Cybertools: Sequentialization with Paths

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 157-161

    5. Cybertools: Similarity with Cybermap

      • Peter Gloor
      Pages 163-169
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The hypermedia authoring process has been vividly described in a special issue of the Economist as a combination of writing a book, a play, a film, and a radio or television show: A hypermedia document combines all these elements and adds some of its own. The author' s first job is to structure and explain all of the infor­ mation. The author then must distill the information into brief, descriptive nodes. Each node has to contain a Iist of the ingredients, and instructions on how the ingredients are mixed together to the greatest advantage. The structure of the material provided is translated into an architectural metaphor of some kind; much of the designer' s work is the creation of this imaginary space. Then, the designers must chart the details of what to animate, what to film, who to inter­ view, and how to arrange the information in the space tobe built [Eco95a]. This book presents guidelines, tools, and techniques for prospective authors such that they can design better hypermedia documents and applications. lt surveys the different techniques used to organize, search, and structure infor­ mation in a large information system. It then describes the algorithms used to locate, reorganize, and link data to enable navigation and retrieval. It Iooks in detail at the creation and presentation of certain types of visual information, namely algorithm animations. It introduces new mechanisms for editing audio and video data streams.

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