Turning ideas into products: the Guide system

  • Authors:
  • P. J. Brown

  • Affiliations:
  • Office Workstations Ltd., 5 Abbeymount Techbase, 2 Easter Road, Edinburgh EH7 5AN and Computing Laboratory, The University of Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF

  • Venue:
  • HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

The Guide system is a successful commercial product that originally came out of some ideas of a research project. Unlike many other hypertext systems, Guide is aimed at naive users and authors in the personal computer market. This paper evaluates the basic principles of Guide, and describes the interplay between the product and the continuing hypertext research programme.