Information relationships: the source of useful and usable content

  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Albers

  • Affiliations:
  • East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Effective communication requires more than what the content says and how it's formatted and instead requires focusing on the interrelationships between information elements and how those interrelationships fit together to help a person understand the situation. The design presented to readers must be an integrated presentation that supports achieving their goals within their situational context. For an integrated presentation to help people find and use content, it must provide the cross-references and interconnections between different information elements to form the highly interconnected structures that typify most complex problems. Unfortunately, this integrated presentation varies between each audience group and normally involves connections between information elements which have little in common with a conventional information hierarchy or architecture.