Objectives

Course Format

Grading

• Final Exam (comprehensive) 25%
• Exercises (3) 50%
• Class Participation 25%

Sample Final Exam

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Topics

Introduction

Surveys

• Salamapsis, M., Hypertext Systems
• Conklin, J., "A Survey of Hypertext," IEEE Computer, v. 20, no. 9, Sept. 1987, pp 17-41.

Seminal Work

• Englebart & Augmentation
• Engelbart, D. C., Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, Stanford Research Institute, Report # AFOSR-3233, October 1962.
• Engelbart, Douglas C., Watson, Richard W., and Norton, James C., The Augmented Knowledge Workshop, National
Computer Conference, New York City, June 1973.
• Xanadu
• ZOG/KMS
• Robertson, G., McCracken, D., and Newell, A., "The ZOG approach to man-machine communication," Int. J. Man-Machine Studies, 14, 1981, pp. 461-488.
• Akscyn, R. M., D. L. McCracken and E. A. Yoder, "KMS: A Distributed Hypermedia System for Managing Knowledge in Organizations,"Communications of the ACM, v. 31, no. 7, July 1988, pp. 820-835.
• NoteCards
• Halasz, F. G., "Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems," Communications of the ACM, v. 31, no. 7, July 1988, pp. 836-852.
• Halasz' HT'91 Keynote

Design Issues

• Yankelovich, Nicole, Meyrowitz, Norman, and van Dam, Andries, "Reading and Writing the Electronic Book," IEEE Computer, October 1985, pp. 15-30.
• Yankelovich, Nicole, Haan, Bernard J., Meyrowitz, Norman, and Drucker, Steven M., "Intermedia: The Concept and the Construction of a Seamless Information Environment," IEEE Computer, January 1988, pp. 81-96.
• Kaplan, N and S. Moulthrop, "Where no mind has gone before: ontological design for virtual spaces," ECHT '94. Proceedings of the 1994 ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology, pages 206-216.

Representation

Trigg, R., A Network-Based Approach to Text Handling for the Online Scientific Community, Chapter 4, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, November 1983.
• Campbell, Brad, and Goodman, Joseph M., "HAM: A General Purpose Hypertext Abstract Machine," Communications of the ACM, 31(7), pp. 856-861, July 1988.
• Garg, Pankaj K., "Abstraction Mechanisms in Hypertext," Communications of the ACM, 31(7), July 1988, pp. 862-870.

A Reference Model

• Halasz, F and M. Schwartz, "The Dexter Hypertext Reference Model," Communications of the ACM, 37(2), pp. 30-39, February 1994.
• Grønbaek, K. and R. Trigg, "Design Issues for a Dexter-Based Hypermedia System," Communications of the ACM, 37(2), pp. 40-49, February 1994.

Search & Navigation

• Marchionini, G and B. Shneiderman, "Finding Facts vs Browsing Knowledge in Hypertext Systems," IEEE Computer, January 1988, pp. 70-80.
• Rivlin, E. Botafogo, R. and B. Shneiderman, "Navigating in Hyperspace" Designing a Structure-Based Toolbox," Communications of the ACM, 37(2), pp. 87-96, February 1994.
• Bruce, H., "User Satisfaction with Information Seeking on the Internet," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(6):541-556, 1998.
• Khan, K. and C. Locatis, "Searching through Cyberspace: The Effects of Link Cues and Correspondence on Information Retrieval from Hypertext on the World Wide Web," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(14):1248-1253, 1998.
• Tauscher, L. and S. Greenberg, "How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems," Int. J. Human-Computer Studies (1997) 47, 97-137.

Human Factors - Authoring, Interfaces & Comprehension

The World Wide Web as Hypertext

• Bieber, M., Vitali, F., Ashman, H., Balasubramanian, V. and Oinas-Kukkonen, H., "Fourth generation hypermedia: some missing links for the World Wide Web," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Special Issue on World Wide Web Usability, 47(1), 1997.

Interesting Connections

• EXIT
• Computer Mediated Minds, Cyborg Bodies
• Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
• How To Deconstruct Almost Anything

Tentative Schedule