A comprehensive, clearly written overview of hypertext, this book gives broad coverage of different hypertext systems, as well as their features and applications using many concrete examples and illustrations of real systems. Nielsen provides a history of the subject and explores the social issues related to hypertext.
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Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. is a principal of Nielsen Norman Group. He is the founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement, which emphasizes fast and efficient methods for improving the quality of user interfaces. Nielsen was noted as "the world's leading expert on Web usability" by U.S. News and World Report and "the next best thing to a true time machine" by USA Today. Nielsen's Alertbox column on Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers. From 1994 to 1998, Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. His previous affiliations include Bell Communications Research, the Technical University of Denmark, and the IBM User Interface Institute. See his biography page at useit.com for additional biographical information.
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The simplest way to define hypertext is to contrast it with traditional text like this book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
global overview diagram, navigational dimensions, local overview diagram, hypertext field, current hypertext systems, usability parameters, hypertext engines, hypertext abstract machine, visualization scores, hypertext anchors, hypertext mechanisms, online fiction, educational hypertext, hypertext support, hypertext nodes, hypertext products, hypertext usability, document processing systems, hypertext structure, hypertext network, hypertext jumps, hypertext users, hypertext form, hypertext interface, hypertext design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brown University, Symbolics Document Examiner, Glasgow Online, Inigo Gets Out, Ted Nelson, Vannevar Bush, Frank Halasz, The Manhole, Book House, Drexel Disk, Andy van Dam, Apple Computer, Aspen Movie Map, Design Museum, Two Questions, Technical University of Denmark, Trip Report, Architecture Machine Group, Doug Engelbart, Eastgate Systems, James Hardie Industries, Media Lab, Peter Brown, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog New!
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global overview diagram, navigational dimensions, local overview diagram, hypertext field, current hypertext systems, usability parameters, hypertext engines, hypertext abstract machine, visualization scores, hypertext anchors, hypertext mechanisms, online fiction, educational hypertext, hypertext support, hypertext nodes, hypertext products, hypertext usability, document processing systems, hypertext structure, hypertext network, hypertext jumps, hypertext users, hypertext form, hypertext interface, hypertext design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brown University, Symbolics Document Examiner, Glasgow Online, Inigo Gets Out, Ted Nelson, Vannevar Bush, Frank Halasz, The Manhole, Book House, Drexel Disk, Andy van Dam, Apple Computer, Aspen Movie Map, Design Museum, Two Questions, Technical University of Denmark, Trip Report, Architecture Machine Group, Doug Engelbart, Eastgate Systems, James Hardie Industries, Media Lab, Peter Brown, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog New!
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- Academic American Encyclopedia on page 153, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Second Edition by M.G. Helander in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A History of Personal Workstations by Adele Goldberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Tempus) by Theodore H. Nelson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literary Machines on page 33, and Back Matter
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- Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen on page 298, page 304, and page 328
- Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self- Supporting Products, 2nd Edition by William Horton on page 158, and Back Matter
- Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990 (Cambridge Series on Electronic Publishing) by A. Rizk on page 273, and page 311
- Watch It: The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education by Nicholas Burbules on page 66, and page 69
- Mediapolis: Aspects of Texts, Hypertext and Multimedial Communication (Research in Text Theory) by Sam Inkinen on page 19, and page 52
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