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KMStopic: rapid navigation in hypertext

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KMStopic:
how KMS re-orients users
KMStopic:
KMS and ZOG goals
KMStopic:
KMS performance
KMStopic:
point-and-click user interface
Subtopic: rapid navigation for exploration, restructuring, explaining links, multiplexing up

KMSquote: browsing is the canonical activity; must be quick, especially for large-scale hypermedia [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: speed of following links is the most important parameter for hypermedia [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: faster response time reduces mental and physical effort [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS rapid navigation reduces cost of exploration; can backtrack to known frame [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS rapid navigation facilitates locating place to change and restructuring [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS uses time multiplexing (quick frame display) instead of space multiplexing [»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Subtopic: rapid navigation replaces scrolling and link explainers up

KMSquote: KMS browsing is quicker because it does not use scrolling [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: rapid link traversal is as practical as accessing a link explainer [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: fixed-size frames avoids scrolling which is less efficient than navigation [»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Subtopic: quarter-second response time up

KMSquote: KMS design goal of a quarter second to follow a link, may be optimal [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: qualitative difference between sub-second and multi-second response for browsing [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: ZOG improvement from 5-10 seconds to 2-3 seconds seen as major breakthrough [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: PERQ hypermedia had 0.7 or 1.5 second response time; dramatic improvement over earlier ZOG systems [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: PROMIS used specialized hardware for quarter second response time (70% of accesses) [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: ZOG with 0.05 to 0.1 sec response time was faster than needed [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: ZOG with 0.05 second response time was too fast (hard to notice new frame) [»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Subtopic: KMS response time up

KMSquote: KMS has 0.5 second average access time on Suns and Apollos [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS usually displays new frame in less than 0.5 second [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS accesses large frame (4.5 kbytes) in 0.22 seconds from cache
KMSquote: KMS now runs with sub-second response time (faster file systems and hardware) [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS response time varies by frame size, graphics performance, disk speed [»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Subtopic: point-and-click interaction faster than menus up

KMSquote: 90% of user interaction in KMS is point-and-click; twice as fast as menus [»akscRM7_1988, OK]
KMSquote: KMS 'back' command is a mouse button on empty space; twice as fast as menu [»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Subtopic: standard format up

KMSquote: KMS frames have a standard layout; quick browsing due to visual regularity
[»akscRM7_1988, OK]

Related Topics up

KMStopic: how KMS re-orients users (11 items)
KMStopic: KMS and ZOG goals (13 items)
KMStopic: KMS performance (7 items)
KMStopic: point-and-click user interface
(14 items)

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