April 5th: Readings on Hypertext
Hypertext Gardens by Bernstein
- Readers attention to the use of hypertext is important.
- Architecture and landscape affect the placement of hypertext.
- Rigid structure is mostly used but is costly.
- At the beginning of hypertext, creators would create navigation tools, but now they are drifting away from that. (They believe it's an illusion).
- There needs to be a little bit of disorientation in order for readers to make readers receptive of new ideas.
- Having regularity and irregularity helps maintain readers' attention.
- Hypertext can break up chunky texts and long articles.
- Hypertexts should have a clear title. Readers would be more likely to click on it and explore then.
- Hypertexts can use formal frames to show deliberate intent and avoiding a rigid structure.
- Hypertexts give readers more information than what they were originally looking for.
The seven lessons from "gardening":
- Hypertext disorientation is from muddled writing/complexity of a subject. Keep it simple.
- Rigid structure can distort a hypertext's voice if it's always pushing readers away from the key pages.
- Shortest path isn't always the best.
- Hypertexts should be interesting and exciting yet confined.
- Irregularities in punctuation enhance the hypertext pathways.
- Gateway structures should be clear. This helps assure readers they are at the right spot.
- Rigid structure= large hypertext seems smaller. Complex structure= small hypertext seem larger.
Reading On The Screen by Vandendorpe
The site refused to connect and said that I couldn't connect with it. I tried googling the site but it's temporarily unavailable and under maintenance.Computer Lib / Dream Machines by Nelson
- Human-Computer interaction (1). Helps students stay motivated to want to learn if they are in control (13).
- Hypertext-enabled publishing network (2). This became popular in the 1990s when the World Wide Web became popular.
- Learning resource that is interactive (computers) (12).
- Hypermedia- presentations that respond to users actions (13).
- Discrete Hypertext- breaks sequence ; separate pieces of text separated with links. Arranged in relation to the subject presented (14).
- Hypergram- a branching picture (14).
- Stretchtext- type of hypertext that can pop up or go away within a text. Adds more information without leaving the page (15).
- Hyper-Comics- people can read what they want and get rid of what they don't by clicking on the comic (16).
- Talks about thinkertoys briefly (21).
- Hypertext systems offer freedom from categorizing and chopping (28).
- Thinkertoys section (32). Allow us to choose things that we want to look at more. Organizes alternative categories (37).
- Xanadu- Parallel Textface's system (33). Simple for users to use.
Literary Machines by Nelson
- Basic/Chunk-style hypertext- footnote markers, labels at end of a chunk (1).
- Collateral Hypertext- parallel text (1).
- Specific Hypertext- material written with specific purpose (1).
- Grand Hypertext- everything written about a topic
- Hypertext helps retain old information and written work; allows reader to explore work without leaving their original page.
- Thinkertoy- separate panels of text and links shown on them.
- Hierarchical format- storage then display then language
- Hypertext is non-sequential writing ; create a inter-connective structure instead.
- Anthological Hypertext- formalized
