{"title":"AHA! An open Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture","authors":"P. D. Bra, L. Calvi","doi":"10.1080/13614569808914698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569808914698","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hypermedia applications generate comprehension and orientation problems due to their rich link structure. Adaptive hypermedia tries to alleviate these problems by ensuring that the links that are offered and the content of the information pages are adapted to each individual user. This is done by maintaining a user model. Most adaptive hypermedia systems are aimed at one specific application. They provide an engine for maintaining the user model and for adapting content and link structure. They use a fixed screen layout that may include windows (HTML frames) for an annotated table of contents, an overview of known or missing knowledge, etc. Such systems are typically closed and difficult to reuse for very different applications. We present AHA, an open Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture that is suitable for many different applications. This paper concentrates on the adaptive hypermedia engine, which maintains the user model and which filters content pages and link structures accordingly. The engine...","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134351541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library and study skills using hypertext: the TILT experience","authors":"Linda Creanor, Helen Durndell, Carol Primrose","doi":"10.1080/13614569608914678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569608914678","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract When the Glasgow University Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies (TILT) project began in January 1993, its main aim was to demonstrate how IT could be successfully incorporated into university teaching within a single institution. Now almost four years on, TILT has demonstrated its value in many areas and one topic which has shown itself to have wider implications is that of library and study skills. More than 130 institutions both in the UK and overseas are now using the 5 hypertext information skills modules as a resource in their undergraduate teaching, and detailed evaluations of their effectiveness have been carried out. This paper reflects on the development and evaluation of the courseware and details its transformation from Guide through Toolbook to World Wide Web.","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132880035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A design method for effective information delivery in multimedia","authors":"A. Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1080/13614569908914707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569908914707","url":null,"abstract":"A method for multimedia presentation design is described. The method consists of design principles based on cognitive psychology, media selection guidelines that utilise definition of information and media types, validation guidelines for media combination and techniques for directing the user's attention in multimedia sequences. Contact points are proposed for design effects to link content themes across different media. The method is illustrated with a theatre booking application, and the techniques for attention design are described by experimental studies on a presentation before and after the application of the attention directing guidelines. Method validation studies are described briefly followed by a discussion of future work.","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126318751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Oberlander, Mick O'Donnell, C. Mellish, A. Knott
{"title":"Conversation in the museum: experiments in dynamic hypermedia with the intelligent labelling explorer","authors":"J. Oberlander, Mick O'Donnell, C. Mellish, A. Knott","doi":"10.1080/13614569808914693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569808914693","url":null,"abstract":"We outline experience with the Intelligent Labelling Explorer, a dynamic hypertext system developed at the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the National Museums of Scotland. First, we indicate a number of ways in which labels on museum objects ought to be tuned to take into account types of visit, the interests of visitors, and their evolving knowledge during a visit. Secondly, we sketch the general architecture of our system, and then focus on the conversational effects which the system can create. We then briefly indicate future directions of research, before critically discussing the applicability (or otherwise) of the spatial metaphor to flexible hypertexts.","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124391758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Not, Daniela Petrelli, M. Sarini, O. Stock, C. Strapparava, M. Zancanaro
{"title":"Hypernavigation in the physical space: adapting presentations to the user and to the situational context (Technical Note)","authors":"E. Not, Daniela Petrelli, M. Sarini, O. Stock, C. Strapparava, M. Zancanaro","doi":"10.1080/13614569808914694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569808914694","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper describes a portable system lo support a new way of visiting cultural and tourist sites. The perspective is that the visitor moves in a physical space like a museum, while seeking information and guidance through the use of a hand-held electronic guide. Techniques are presented to adapt the content of the presentations to the particular visitor, place, and moment of visit (that is, taking into account the user model, knowledge of the physical location and the physical space around it, and the history of previous interactions).","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123071800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New IR - New Evaluation: the impact of interaction and multimedia on information retrieval and its evaluation","authors":"S. Draper, Mark D. Dunlop","doi":"10.1080/13614569708914686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569708914686","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The field of information retrieval (IR) traditionally addressed the problem of retrieving text documents from large collections by full-text indexing of words. It has always been characterised by a strong focus on evaluation to compare the performance of alternative designs. The emergence into widespread use both of multimedia and of interactive user interfaces has extensive implications for this field and the evaluation methods on which it depends. This paper discusses what we currently understand about those implications. The ‘system’ being measured must be expanded to include the human users, whose behaviour has a large effect on overall retrieval success, which now depends upon sessions of many retrieval cycles, rather than a single transaction. Multimedia raise issues not only of how users might specify a query in the same medium (e.g. sketch the kind of picture they want), but of cross-medium retrieval. Current explorations in IR evaluation show diversity along at least two dimensions. One ...","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131140583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter J. Nürnberg, Kaj Grønbæk, Dirk Bucka-Lassen, Claus Aagaard Pedersen, Olav Reinert
{"title":"A component-based open hypermedia approach to integrating structure services","authors":"Peter J. Nürnberg, Kaj Grønbæk, Dirk Bucka-Lassen, Claus Aagaard Pedersen, Olav Reinert","doi":"10.1080/13614569908914713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569908914713","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we consider the issue of integrating different structure services within a component-based open hypermedia system. We do so by considering the task of collaborative editing, which calls for a variety of different structures traditionally supplied by different structure services. We discuss the nature of collaborative editing and how it can be supported by a combination of spatial and navigational hypermedia services. We then present a component-based open hypermedia system architecture and describe various methods of integrating different structure services provided within such an architecture. We show the advantages of integration within a component-based framework over other means of integration, highlighting some of the main advantages of the component-based approach to open hypermedia system design and implementation.","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122578175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The electronic business card: an experiment in half-dead hypertext","authors":"J. Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/13614569508914664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569508914664","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Half-dead hypertext has links where the user has to do some work to retrieve the destination nodes (for example mount a CD-ROM or send an email message). Also, response times may be so slow that users do not have the normal hypertext feeling of freely navigating an information space. This is in contrast to normal live hypertext where the nodes appear immediately upon activation of a link anchor and dead hypertext where the links are simple cross-references to material that is not available on the computer and thus cannot be retrieved at all. Half-dead hypertext can be used in cases where live links are technically difficult or impossible to support. One example is the electronic business card, which is a link to further information about its owner. Electronic business cards can be transmitted between personal digital assistants and will allow the recipient to link to much more extensive information than can be transmitted and stored on a PDA platform. Also, electronic business card links can be p...","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123298549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimedia information using mobile computers: accessing the digital campus and the digital library","authors":"P. Thomas, J. Meech, Jane Williams","doi":"10.1080/13614569608914671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569608914671","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is clear that the role of the information resource is changing. Major publishers have been slow to adapt to the emergence of a global digital medium, but there are now signs that a great deal of information will be delivered on-line, (although at present only about 25 databases account for 80% of usage in UK and optical publishing is still in its early stages). However, digital publishing on the Internet — with services for libraries such as just-in-time purchasing and delivery, for example — will be a driving force in creating the ‘global digital medium’. One issue that will become increasingly relevant is how the individual user accesses rich multimedia data in the most appropriate way. The ‘digital university campus’ and the ‘digital library’ are coming to be important concepts, with the aim that users of information services will receive information on-line supported by a ‘ubiquistructure’ of information technology. For the ‘digital campus’ this means that not only scholarly but also teach...","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128745266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for extending object-oriented applications with hypermedia functionality","authors":"A. Garrido, G. Rossi","doi":"10.1080/13614569608914672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614569608914672","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A core set of navigational aspects may be found by extracting the key features of hypermedia applications. Incorporated to an information system (IS), they may increase its utility and usability.1 This type of extension of an IS is called “The Hypertext Functionality Approach’12 and it may be done in different ways. In this paper we present a novel approach to add navigational features into object-oriented (OO) applications: by using the application model as the basis for the hypermedia model and placing the navigational features in a different layer, allowing to augment the application functionality without polluting the base model. The navigational features were included as components of an OO framework, and were defined by abstracting the major concepts of current hypermedia design models. The major goal of this approach is the seamless integration of the application's behaviour with main characteristics of hypermedia. This results in a hybrid application that may be considered either as an OO...","PeriodicalId":301199,"journal":{"name":"New Rev. Hypermedia Multim.","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127386720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}