HMT: Modeling Temporal Aspects in Hypermedia Applications

  • Authors:
  • Günther Specht;Peter Zoller

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WAIM '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Since today large hypermedia applications such as huge web sites or extensive CD-presentations cannot be built without a dedicated design phase any more, advanced methodologies for modeling these kinds of applications become more and more important. In this paper, we present the essence of the Hypermedia Modeling Technique (HMT), which supports the modeling of truly interactive, adaptive and time-based hypermedia applications on arbitrary platforms. HMT offers new design primitives for the specification of temporal dependencies, for modeling search and update interfaces to the underlying data sources, for specifying access restrictions and for defining advanced hyperlinks with a more powerful link concept than their current WWW counterparts. Thus, HMT excels other methods which focus mainly on information presentation issues. The complete HMT design process consists of a sequence of 6 specification steps, two of which will be discussed in-depth within this paper: first, the conceptual hypermedia design of HMT is introduced, because it serves as the basis for all subsequent design steps. Second, temporal design with HMT is described in detail, since audio, video, slide shows, and time-based animations play a more and more important role in today's applications.