Group: problems with hypertext

Summary

This section discusses problems with hypertext. With the Web, hypertext became an important media. Search is the primary access method. (cbb 3/07)

Subtopic: search vs. links

Quote: associations is not enough: need searching by semantics, need derived information [»vandA7_1988]

Subtopic: implicit vs. explicit links

Quote: with named relationships can not follow paths implicitly defined by the data [»kentW_1978]

Subtopic: isolated nodes vs. groups of nodes and links

Quote: in Hypertext no way to deal with groups of nodes and links as an entity [»halaFG7_1988]

Subtopic: generic vs. task-specific

Quote: generic Hypertext is not well adapted to any specific task [»halaFG7_1988]

Subtopic: broken links

Quote: a link requires the continued existence of its objects; what happens when object is deleted [»kentW_1978]

Group: problems with hypertext

Topic: hypertext as unstructured information (4 items)
Topic: hypertext rhetoric (17 items)
Topic: problems with cognitive overhead of hypertext (20 items)
Topic: problems with disorientation in hypertext (18 items)
Topic: problems with fragmentation in hypertext (13 items)
Topic: problems with reading hypertext (9 items)
Topic: problems with writing hypertext
(12 items)

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