Neptune: a hypertext system for CAD applications
SIGMOD '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
User performance with command, menu, and iconic interfaces
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
CSCW '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Guided tours and on-line presentations: how authors make existing hypertext intelligible for readers
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Text in context: writing online documentation for the workplace
SIGDOC '91 Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Structural analysis of hypertexts: identifying hierarchies and useful metrics
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Developing hypertext documents for an international audience
SIGDOC '92 Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Systems documentation
SIGDOC '92 Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Personalized information structures
SIGDOC '93 Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Contours of constructive hypertexts
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
HYPERTEXT '93 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Hypertext
Navigating in hyperspace: designing a structure-based toolbox
Communications of the ACM
Evaluating the influence of interface styles and multiple access paths in hypertext
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Stalking the paratext: speculations on hypertext links as a second order text
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems: links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems
Reader's document models and access strategies in hypermedia and multimedia systems
SAC '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM symposium on Applied computing
User web browsing characteristics using palm handhelds for information retrieval
IPCC/SIGDOC '00 Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork
Investigating an Approach for Online Reading Assessment
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Gender and information processing in electronic age
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction
Incorporating text models in electronic document readership
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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By studying the structure of written discourse and the processes by which readers acquire information from texts, we have learned a great deal about how to design texts that facilitate learning. However, recent advances in computer technology have enabled the development of new forms of text that violate standard assumptions of what texts are like. These new forms may pose serious problems for learning because they lack discourse features that readers rely on for assimilating new information. In particular, readers traditionally rely on the writer to determine the sequence of topics and to employ conventional cues that signal relationships among topics, such as relative importance or chronology. However, on-line hypertext systems present texts non-linearly, requiring readers to decide what information to read and in what order. This paper assesses the potential impact of non-linear texts on theories of discourse and on current cognitive theories of text processing. It also describes research in progress on readers' sequencing strategies in hypertext. Research on the effect of hypertext on reading will have important practical implications for designing hypertext systems that satisfy readers' needs.