Design issues for a Dexter-based hypermedia system

Grønbæk, Kaj; Trigg, Randall H.

doi:10.1145/168466.168525

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“…Structure is separated from data. For example, annotations or metadata is separated from nodes; Mother's linking model is based on Dexter [23] and handles connections (i.e., links) outside documents. Links are independent objects, which even can be annotated.…”

Section: Reflections On the Given Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypertext as Method

Atzenbeck

Nürnberg

2019

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Historically, there has been a tendency to consider hypertext as a type of system, perhaps characterized by provision of links or other structure to users. In this paper, we consider hypertext as a method of inquiry, a way of viewing arbitrary systems. In this view, what are traditionally called "navigational hypertext systems" might be considered as information retrieval systems, "spatial hypertext systems" as brainstorming systems, etc., while their "hypertext" nature results from the way in which such systems are conceived, developed, and/or presented. The benefit of such a shift is the ability to apply this hypertextual method of inquiry to systems not normally considered part of the hypertext community. In this paper, we specifically apply this view to artificial intelligence, and examine how this application can be productive. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia; Graphical user interfaces; User centered design; • Software and its engineering → Software infrastructure.

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Section: Reflections On the Given Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypertext as Method

Atzenbeck

Nürnberg

2019

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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“…Navigational Hypertext is the most traditional domain of hypertext, exemplified in Open Hypermedia Systems such as Chimera [1], DHM [14], HyperForm [30], Microcosm [11] and the HB/SP series [27]. Authors create Links between parts of documents that are related.…”

Section: An Overview Of Hypertext Domainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hypermedia provides users with a well-understood methodology for interacting with information via browsing and navigation. Additionally, Open Hypermedia [1,14,30,11,27] is a paradigm that allows information to be customised and adapted to the user. In this paper, we argue that Open Hypermedia is the right approach to solve the problem of interacting with an ontological information space.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Open hypermedia as a navigational interface to ontological information spaces

Weal

Hughes

Millard

et al. 2001

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia - HYPERTEXT '01

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Ontologies provide a powerful tool for distributed agentbased information systems. However, in their raw form they can be difficult for users to interact with directly. Different query architectures have used structured query languages as an interface but these still require the users to have an expert understanding of the underlying ontologies.By using an Open Hypermedia model as an interface to an ontological information space, users can interact with such a system using familiar browsing and navigation techniques, which are translated into queries over the underlying information. Coupled with dynamic document generation, this allows complicated queries to be made without the user having to interact directly with the ontologies.Our key contribution is a notion of hypermedia links between concepts and queries within an ontological information space. This approach is demonstrated with a Dynamic CV application built around the SoFAR agent framework and the Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM). In addition to abstracting the interface, Open Hypermedia allows alternative linkbases to be used to represent different "query recipes", providing different views and navigational experiences to the user.

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“…The design activities spread over a 2-year period, and approximately 10 developers and 20 users were involved. The activties delivered so-called pre-competitive prototypes of a Coordination Tool [17] and a Cooperative Hypermedia Tool [14,15]. These tools are to be turned into general products by some of the industrial partners in the EuroCoOp project.…”

Section: Cooperative Design Activities In the Eurocoop Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Grønbaek & Trigg [15] discusses design issues involved in the development of this open hypermedia system, the report [14] describes features of the system, and the report [20] describes results of the evaluation undertaken at GBL.…”

Section: The Hypermedia System Being Developedmentioning

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CSCW challenges

Grønbæk¹,

Kyng²,

Mogensen³

1993

Commun. ACM

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This paper investigates how to support work and in particular cooperation in large-scale technical projects. The investigation is based on a case study of a specific Danish engineering company and it uncovers challenges to Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in this setting. The company is responsible for management and supervision of one of the world's largest tunnel/bridge construction projects. Our original goal was to determine requirements for CSCW as they unfold in this specific setting as opposed to survey and laboratory investigations. The requirements provide feedback to product development both on specific functionality and as a long term vision for CSCW in such settings. As it turned out, developing our cooperative design techniques in a product development setting also became a major issue.The initial cooperative analysis identified a number of bottlenecks in daily work, where support for cooperation is needed. Examples of bottlenecks are: sharing materials, issuing tasks, and keeping track of task status. Grounded in the analysis, cooperative design workshops based on scenarios of future work situations were established to investigate the potential of different CSCW technologies in this setting. In the workshops, mock-ups and prototypes were used to support end-users in assessing CSCW technologies based on concrete, hands-on experiences. The workshops uncovered several challenges. First, support for sharing materials would require a huge body of diverse materials to be integrated, for example into a hypermedia network. Second, tasks are closely coupled to materials being processed thus a coordination tool should integrate facilities for managing materials. Third, most daily work tasks are event driven and plans change too rapidly for people to register them on a computer. Without meeting these challenges, new CSCW tools are likely to introduce too much overhead to be really useful.

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Design issues for a Dexter-based hypermedia system

Cited by 30 publications

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