Open architecture multimedia documents

Gaines, Brian R.; Shaw, Maria C.

doi:10.1145/166266.166282

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“…It has been found that information visualization can assist subjects in developing a more robust mental model of the interrelationships to be found in the content (Wenger & Payne, 1994). In addition, several researchers (Gaines & Shaw, 1993; McDonald & Stevenson, 1999) have expressed the belief that users in nonlinear environments need visual aids from their environment in order to alleviate navigational problems, such as the disorientation problem.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information‐conveying approaches and cognitive styles of mental modeling in a hypermedia‐based learning environment

Lee

Boling

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The increasing spread of Internet technology has highlighted the need for a better understanding of the fundamental issues concerning human users in a virtual space. Despite the great degree of navigational freedom, however, not all hypermedia users have the capability to locate information or assimilate internal knowledge. Research findings suggest that this type of problem could be solved if users were able to hold a cognitive overview of the hypermedia structure. How a learner can acquire the correct structural knowledge of online information has become an important factor in learning performance in a hypermedia environment. Variables that might influence learners' abilities in structuring a cognitive overview, such as users' cognitive styles and the different ways of representing information, should be carefully taken into account. The results of this study show that the interactions between information representation approaches and learners' cognitive styles have significant effects on learners' performance in terms of structural knowledge and feelings of disorientation. Learners' performance could decline if a representational approach that contradicts their cognitive style is used. Finally, the results of the present study may apply only when the learner's knowledge level is in the introductory stage. It is not clear how and what type of cognitive styles, as well as information representation approaches, will affect the performance of advanced and expert learners.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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“…Users can depend on concept maps, and can access multimedia materials through indexing mechanisms. In general, concept maps are used as stand‐alone documents or are embedded as interactive pictures in active documents (Gaines & Shaw, 1993).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information‐conveying approaches and cognitive styles of mental modeling in a hypermedia‐based learning environment

Lee

Boling

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Gaines and Shaw [13,14] have developed an active document technology in which a word processor embeds graphics, hypertext link and active components including semantic network functionalities. This has been applied to developing procedure manuals for a corporation, as well as to modeling organizational rules and constraints to be readily understood, updated and used in the organization's information systems.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

e-Document management in situated interactivity: the WIL approach

Bottoni

Ferri

Grifoni

et al. 2009

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Complex organizations need to manage a large amount of information that their employees produce and use in the form of documents: therefore, information systems are adopted to access these documents in electronic format (e-documents) through Intranet or Internet. These documents are composed, organized and annotated in different ways according to the rules adopted by specific professional communities. Such rules reflect the different and peculiar culture and skills of the communities producing them. The large amount of information available today can be potentially accessed in real time. This has increased the need for syntactic and semantic characterization of documents and for tools that allow their effective access and exploitation on the Net, their easy retrieval and management, their annotation to adapt and personalize them on the base of users' characteristics and diversities. This paper describes the approach adopted for the Web Indexing Language (WIL) system, a system conceived for supporting users interactivity during editing, indexing, and annotating e-documents on the basis of conventions adopted for their production and distribution. In particular, the approach capitalizes on the notion that the document layout reflects the relationships among the different semantic components of the document. The model and the architecture of the WIL system aim at improving e-document indexing, searching, editing and annotating, and at exploiting the description of the logical structure of the document itself to squeeze the information about the document content which are usually grasped by a reader at a glance.

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“…The HTML specifications of Figure 5 may be embedded within any document, making active semantic networks available as was done with the KWrite knowledgebased word processor Gaines & Shaw, 1993c). Thus, a knowledge structure developed locally can be made available globally together with its linked derivation so that knowledge acquisition and validation can proceed on a distributed basis.…”

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confidence: 99%