Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia

✍ Scribed by Norbert A. Streitz (auth.), Dr. Wolfgang Schuler, Jörg Hannemann, Dr. Norbert Streitz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Research Reports ESPRIT 1 : Project 6532.HIFI
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One can observe that a wide range of human activities involves various forms of de­ sign. Especially if the goal implies the creation of an artifact, design is at the very center of these activities. It is the general understanding in the public to place design especially in the context of, for example, fashion, furniture, household items, cars, and architecture or in a more general way at the intersection of art and engineering. Of course, in the field of information technology, developers of software and hard­ ware are called system 'designers'. Design can be identified and considered in the context of many activities related to pUblishing: creating a product ad in a magazine, designing the layout of a newspaper, authoring a book. Summarizing these exam­ ples as 'creating documents', these are activities where two challenges with respect to design have to be met. Designing the content, its structure, and its relationship to the existing knowledge of potential readers is one, while the other refers to the 'rhetorical' aspects including designing the presentation of the material in order to communicate the content. Publishing is communicating knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Foundations of Hypermedia Design....Pages 1-3
Hypermedia Application Design: a Structured Approach....Pages 5-17
Experiences in Authoring Hypermedia: Creating Better Presentations....Pages 18-28
What Matters in Developing Interfaces for Hyperdocument Presentation?....Pages 29-42
Interaction in Hypermedia Systems: From Browsing to Conversation....Pages 43-54
Metaphors for Hypermedia Interfaces....Pages 55-57
Metaphor Engineering: a Participatory Approach....Pages 58-67
Metaphor-based User Interfaces for Hyperspaces....Pages 68-78
Architecture and User Interface of the IDEAS Intelligent Documentation System....Pages 79-94
Evaluation and Critical Aspects of Hypermedia Design....Pages 95-98
An Evaluation Model Based on Experimental Methods Applied to the Design of Hypermedia User Interfaces....Pages 99-116
Never Mind The Theory, Feel The Data: Observations On The Methodological Problems Of User Interface Design....Pages 117-125
Design of Hypermedia Interfaces in Commercial Applications....Pages 126-137
Detailed Design Proposals and Guidelines....Pages 139-140
A Dialogue Approach to Graphical Information Access....Pages 141-155
Annotations are not “for free”: The Need for Runtime Layer Support in Hypertext Engines....Pages 156-166
Three Fundamental Elements of Visual Rhetoric in Hypertext....Pages 167-178
Some issues of defining a user interface with general purpose hypermedia toolkits....Pages 179-200
Analysis of Feature Usage in Access to On-line Information....Pages 201-207
Facing Technical Documentation with Hypertext: Reflections on the Systematic Design, Construction and Presentation....Pages 208-218
HIFI — Hypertext interface to external databases....Pages 219-224
The ESPRIT Project HIFI Medical Application....Pages 225-235
HIFINBIPOP — Hypertext Interface to FINancial data in BIPOP bank (Italy)....Pages 236-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-250

✦ Subjects

Document Preparation and Text Processing; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Models and Principles; Business Information Systems; Health Informatics