Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia

ISBN-13: 9783540584896 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 250 str.

W. Schuler;Schuler; Wolfgang Schuler

Opis

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."

Spis treści

1 Foundations of Hypermedia Design.- and Overview.- Hypermedia application design: a structured approach.- Experiences in authoring hypermedia: creating better presentations.- What matters in developing interfaces for hyperdocument presentation?.- Interaction in hypermedia systems: from browsing to conversation.- 2 Metaphors for Hypermedia Interfaces.- and Overview.- Metaphor engineering: a participatory approach.- Metaphor-based user interfaces for hyperspaces.- Architecture and user interface of the IDEAS intelligent documentation system.- 3 Evaluation and Critical Aspects of Hypermedia Design.- and Overview.- An evaluation model based on experimental methods applied to the; design of hypermedia user interfaces.- Never mind the theory, feel the data: Observations on the methodological problems of user interface design.- Design of hypermedia interfaces in commercial applications.- 4 Detailed Design Proposals and Guidelines.- and Overview.- A dialogue approach to graphical information access.- Annotations are not ‘for free’: The need for runtime layer support in hypertext engines.- Three fundamental elements of visual rhetoric in hypertext.- Some issues of defining a user interface with general purpose hypermedia toolkits.- Analysis of feature usage in access to on—line information.- Facing technical documentation with hypertext: reflections on the systematic design, construction and presentation.- 5 The ESPRIT Project HIFI.- HIFI — Hypertext interface to external databases.- The ESPRIT project HIFI medical application.- HIFINBIPOP — Hypertext Interface to FINancial data in BIPOP bank (Italy).- Appendix: Addresses of the Authors.

O autorze

How to design and develop, maintain, and use a hypermedia interface is the topic of this book. Based on an ESPRIT workshop, it discusses actual methodological issues comprising theoretical design aspects as well as detailed practical design proposals.