drascic@ecf.utoronto.ca (SpIke) (08/30/89)
KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND HYPERMEDIA USABILITY Mark Chignell Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Southern California Monday, 11 September 89 3:00 p.m. Room 3202, Sanford Fleming Building 10 King's College Road University of Toronto Hypermedia uses associative structuring of nodes and links to represent and provide access to large amounts of information stored in heterogeneous media. Applications of hypermedia range from decision support and computer-based training to cooperative authoring of text and intelligent databases. The issue of hypermedia usability will be discussed from a human factors perspective and recent empirical findings will be reviewed. The relationship between information retrieval and hypermedia browsing will be clarified and 10 dimensions of hypermedia usability will be identified. The role of knowledge engineering methods in enhancing hypermedia usability will then be discussed. A distinction will be made between enhancing usability through better authoring (creating better structure) and enhancing usability through browse tools (allowing the user to visualize the structure). Traditional models of manual authoring of links to increase usability will be contrasted with inferential link construction using syntactic and semantic heuristics. It is proposed that network analysis techniques may provide predictive measures of hypeanalyses of performance and syntactic and semantic knowledge in developing usable hypermedia structures and browse tools.
clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) (08/30/89)
Not intended as a comment on this particular seminar, but ... In article <1989Aug29.204530.21025@ecf.utoronto.ca> drascic@mv03.ecf.UUCP (SpIke) writes: > > KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND HYPERMEDIA USABILITY > > Mark Chignell > > Monday, 11 September 89 > 3:00 p.m. > Room 3202, Sanford Fleming Building > 10 King's College Road > University of Toronto > > ... It is proposed that network analysis techniques may >provide predictive measures of hypeanalyses of ... ^^^ Is this really what we've all been waiting for? or is it (... sigh ...) just a typo? -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 clarke@csri.toronto.edu or clarke@csri.utoronto.ca or ...!{uunet, pyramid, watmath, ubc-cs}!utai!utcsri!clarke