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- Subject: Re: support tools
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- From: instone@hydra.bgsu.edu (Keith Instone)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:35:28 GMT
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- In article <Bu9G5r.J0H@andy.bgsu.edu>, I wrote:
- |> I am looking for a reference from the hypertext literature, but I have
- |> not been able to find it. Can anybody help me?
- |>
- |> I vaguely remember reading a paper where the author stressed the importance
- |> of the "support tools", I think s/he called them. You know, all of those
- |> extra things that aren't REALLY hypertext, but you can't get around
- |> without them. Like history lists, node marking, paths, guided tours,
- |> searching, etc. I can't even remember the point of the paper, just that
- |> it talks about support tools.
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- I finally tracked down what I was looking for. The authors call them
- "access and guidance" tools, not support tools. Here is the ref (from
- the HCI Bibliography):
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- %T Extending Hypertext for Learning: An Investigation of Access and Guidance
- Tools
- %S Hypertext and Hypermedia
- %A Nick Hammond
- %A Lesley Allinson
- %B Proceedings of the HCI'89 Conference on People and Computers V
- %D 1989
- %P 293-304
- %K Hypertext, Learning support environment, Information retrieval
- %* (c) Copyright 1989 British Informatics Society Ltd.
- %X We argue that hypertext provides a basis for exploratory learning systems,
- but should be supplemented by more directed guidance and access mechanisms. A
- system with a variety of such mechanisms is outlined and is the subject of a
- study in which the provision of facilities is systematically varied. The study
- highlights some problems with bare hypertext, including inefficient information
- access and failure to provide an overview, and illustrates how these problems
- can be addressed.
-
- And thanks to the 2 people who thought perhaps their paper was what I
- was looking for and emailed me. I may use them, too.
-
- --
- Keith instone @ (hydra bullwinkle andy) .bgsu.edu
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