Using maps and landmarks for navigation between closed and open corpus hyperspace in Web-based education

  • Authors:
  • Peter Brusilovsky;Riccardo Rizzo

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, N. Bellefield St., Pittsburgh PA;Institute for Educational and Training Technologies, Italian National Research Council, via Ugo La Malfa 153,90146 Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Hypermedia and the world wide web
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the problem of building links from closed to open corpus Web pages in the context of Web-based education. As a possible solution it introduces landmark-based navigation using semantic information space maps - an approach that we are currently investigating. The technical part of the paper presents a system Knowledge Sea that implements this approach, describes the mechanism behind the system, and reports some results of a classroom evaluation of this system.