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Article: Enhancing hypertext documents to support learning from text. (Column)
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- Technical Communication
- Article date:
- May 1, 1992
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Many researchers in human-computer interaction have noted that a potentially serious drawback with using hypertext as a document format is that users may easily become "lost in hyperspace" knowing neither where one is in a document nor how to get to where one would like to be [1-4]. Some have suggested that the situation is like being lost in a forest without a trail map.
Perhaps because of this analogy, interface researchers have proposed a seemingly intuitive solution: Provide a map to the reader. Such maps consist of labelled nodes and directed links, with the current location made salient by a different color or other technique. However, there have been no ...