
Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation & Visualization in Cyberspace
Techniques for Navigation & Visualization in Cyberspace
Peter Gloor(Author)
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 400 pages
978-0-8176-3911-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1997 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
164 s/w Abbildungen
XVII, 400 p. 164 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8176-3911-2 (9780817639112)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-4144-7
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Book
12/1996
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
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Person
Peter Gloor ist Research Scientist am Center for Collective Intelligence des MIT, wo er ein Projekt zur Erforschung von kollaborativen Innovationsnetzwerken und Happiness leitet. Außerdem ist er Gründer des Softwareunternehmens galaxyadvisors AG und Honorarprofessor an der Universität zu Köln und Jilin University, China.
Marc Schreiber ist Professor für Laufbahn- und Persönlichkeitspsychologie am IAP Institut für Angewandte Psychologie der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Er berät Privatpersonen und Unternehmen in Fragen der beruflichen Laufbahnentwicklung und hat die Plattform Laufbahndiagnostik entwickelt, auf der Fragebogen und Arbeitsmittel für Beratungspersonen und Coaches frei zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
Content
1 A Brief Introduction to Information Retrieval.- 2 User Modeling.- 3 World Wide Web: an Introduction.- 4 Programming the Web.- 5 The Seven Design Concepts for Navigation in Cyberspace.- 6 Linking.- 7 Searching.- 8 Sequentialization.- 9 Hierarchy.- 10 Similarity.- 11 Mapping.- 12 Guides and Agents.- 13 Conclusions.- 14 Cybertools from Text To Hypertext.- 15 Cybertools: Hierarchy with Hiermap, Viewfinder, and Navigation Diamond.- 16 Cybertools: Sequentialization with Paths.- 17 Cybertools: Similarity with Cybermap.- 18 Cybermap: System Architecture.- 19 Cybermap: Implementation Issues.- 20 Building Hierarchical Cybermaps.- 21 Cybertrees: Tree-Shaped Overview Maps.- 22 Conclusions.- 23 Introduction to Algorithm Animation.- 24 Animated Algorithms.- 25 User Interface Design for Algorithm Animation.- 26 Educational Aspects.- 27 Animating Proofs.- 28 The Art of Algorithm Animation.- 29 Algorithm Animation by Scripting.- 30 Conclusions.- 31 Introduction.- 32 Related Work.- 33 VideoScheme System Overview.- 34 VideoScheme Language Overview.- 35 VideoScheme Applications.- 36 Conclusions.- 37 Introduction.- 38 DAGS '92: CD-ROM.- 39 DAGS '95: On the Web.- 40 The Development Process.- 41 Extensions and Improvements.- 42 Conclusions.- References.- Permissions Acknowledgments.