Hypercept: behavioural linkage in hypertext environments

  • Authors:

  • Dan Milgram;William B. Cowan

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada;Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1999 workshop on new paradigms in information visualization and manipulation in conjunction with the eighth ACM internation conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The ever-increasing presence of hypertext as a mechanism for browsing information has necessitated study of how to counter usability difficulties inherent to hypertext as a medium. The conjunction of semantically typed links with associated visual behaviours are proposed, as a means to amending typical navigation problems. Types provide structure to the connected information set, enabling users to better conceive of the overall structure, while behaviour, taking the form of key-framed animations from link source to destination, allow users to perceive structural relations. A set of link type and behaviour combinations, or link roles, implemented in Hypercept are outlined