"Scholarly Hypertext: Self-Represented Complexity"

Scholarly hypertexts involve argument and explicit selfquestioning, and can be distinguished from both informational and literary hypertexts. After making these distinctions the essay presents general principles about attention, some suggestions for self-representational multi-level structures that would enhance scholarly inquiry, and a wish list of software capabilities to support such structures. The essay concludes with a discussion of possible conflicts between scholarly inquiry and hypertext

Postmodern Feminism, Hypertext, And The Rhetoric Of Cooking Websites

This study explores the ways cookbooks and their rhetorical dimensions have been re-imagined using hypertext and Web technology. Using the tenets of postmodern feminist rhetoric and Web design theory, the study considers how commercial cooking hypertexts construct users\u27 identities. Although hypertext is a potentially empowering technology, democratizing rhetoric and knowledge making practices, commercial hypertext often circumscribes agency formation and prohibits participation. Participatory, constructive hypertexts are difficult to design and costly to maintain. Of the three sites studied, Epicurious.com, BettyCrocker.com, and FoodNetwork.com, only Epicurious.com encourages meaningful communication between users and between users and designers. In many ways, Epicurious.com conceives of its users as active agents. Most of its content celebrates many knowledge making practices traditionally considered feminine and embodied. In contrast, BettyCrocker.com and FoodNetwork.com rely on closed, proprietary systems designs to maintain their authority. Users have little opportunity to participate as active agents. In small ways, however, users can begin to deconstruct the hypertexts, to resist the standards and strictures of expertly created recipes by reporting variations and opinions. The features that most reflect the tenets of a constructive feminist hypertext make possible some small movements toward agency

Cibermetría del Web: Las leyes de exponenciación.

An introduction to the power laws, enunciated by Michalis Faloutsos, is made and tbat allows us tu make a characterization of the Web through the analysis of their topology. Their most important characteristics are described and how calculate some of ihe values of thc most interesting functions.Se realiza una introducción a las leyes de exponenciación, enunciadas por Michalis Faloutsos y que nos permiten realizar una caracterización del Web a tra vés del análisis de su topología. Se describen sus características más importantes y cómo se calculan algunos de los valores de las funciones más interesantes

Évaluer l'utilisation d'hypermédias : intérêts et limites des variables de performance

Two main levels in describing hypermedia use can be distinguished. At a global level, the general purpose can be described in terms of learning or problem solving. At a more local level, specific goals can be described in terms of the learners' activity with the system, i.e. the visiting of one or more information nodes. In this paper, the influence of the nature of these local goals on performance variables such as recall, precision, and economy of hypermedia use are investigated. Specific characteristics of the situation, such as the organisation of the information, the type of questions answered, and the type of users are also taken into account. Data coming from two studies are presented, one on information about the profession of a psychiatrist and the other on learning about the topic of energy in physics. The conclusions relate to the potential role that interaction variables can play in the study of hypermedia use

The New Logic of Hypertext: Electronic Documents, Literary Theory, and Air Force Publications

Hypertext systems offer electronic links that can instantly join related documents with the click of a mouse. Some observers predict that in the next few years hypertext will become the predominate technology of communication. Such a revolutionary transformation of our culture\u27s basic system for sharing information is bound to have a profound and wide-ranging impact. At this early stage in hypertext\u27s evolutionary development, no empirical study can be expected to capture the long-term implications of this new technology. An exploratory survey was distributed to 100 large corporations to gather their initial assessment of the revolutionary implications of hypertext. The results suggest that hypertext will lead to dramatic changes in users\u27 experience of text. At this point, the nature of these changes can only be explored philosophically. This thesis examines the potential consequences of moving from a printed text to a hypertext environment in light of the literary theory known as \u27deconstructionism\u27. This theoretical approach to the interpretation of text emphasizes the breakdown of the boundaries that seem to separate documents from one another. The illusion of isolated, self-contained, authoritative meaning gives way to an all-inclusive intertextual conversation. Hypertext provides the physical connections necessary to implement the interactive dialogue central to the deconstructionists\u27 vision. These issues directly concern the Air Force because it is developing a plan to disseminate its operating directives on-line in a system with hypertext features. This study concludes that the Air Force should implement this plan without delay

Cibermetría del Web: las leyes de exponenciación

An introduction to the power laws, enunciated by Michalis Faloutsos, is made and that allows us to make a characterization of the Web through the analysis of their topology. Their most important characteristics are described and how calculate some of the values of the most interesting functions

METHODOLOGIES FOR DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING HYPERMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Hypermedia design, as any other design activity, may be observed according to two points of view: methods which suggest milestones to guide the designer's work and process which concerns the actual detailed behavior of the designer at work. Cognitive studies assess that mental processes involved in any design process show widely shared human characteristics regardless to the used design method. Thereby, they provide general keys to help designers. Thus, a hypertext design environment should equally consider the two dimensions of a hypertext design activity, in particular it should support the natural design process specificities, mainly the incremental and opportunist aspects. The paper focuses on the hypertext design as a computer supported human activity. It examines what is general both in the design methods and in the design process of hypertexts in order to determine which general features are helpful to designers. This analysis has raised from the observation of the behavior of MacWeb users during design tasks. It is related to sound and well known results in cognitive science. The paper also describes how the proposed features are implemented in the MacWeb system.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

1res Rencontres FORMIST - 2001 (Synthèse)

Synthèse des interventions aux premières Rencontres FORMIST (Formation à l\u27information scientifique et technique) : Repères administratifs et juridiques ; Contraintes et enjeux d\u27un projet web pédagogique : méthode, modèle et objectifs ; Comment utiliser un document pédagogique multimédia en formation des usagers ; La conception ergonomique de documents pédagogiques multimédia ; Bibliographie