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HyperAT: HCI and Web Authoring

We review HCI problems with hypertext, and for authoring World Wide Web documents in particular. We suggest that a framework is required to understand the usability issues, and that these issues cannot be seen as pyschological or computing: they are multi-disciplinary. We discuss HyperAT, a prototype authoring tool, being implemented to test these ideas.

Technologies of Information: HCI and the digital library

Digital libraries represent the latest and perhaps the most important stage in the transformation of our relationship to information and its supporting technologies. While the World Wide Web has raised to broad consciousness the ideas of rapid, remote access to vast collections of distributed, hyperlinked documents, users are as often confused and disoriented by such resources as they are empow...

Human-computer interaction: Interdisciplinary roots and trends

Methodology, theory, and practice in the ®eld of Human±Computer Interaction (HCI) all share the goal of producing interactive software that can be used eciently, e€ectively, safely, and with satisfaction. HCI is cross-disciplinary in its conduct and multidisciplinary in its roots. The central concept of HCI is usability, ease of use plus usefulness. Achieving good usability requires attention ...

Age differences and the depth - breadth tradeoff in hierarchical online information systems

This paper examines previous research on the topic of depth versus breath in hierarchical menu structures, and explains why searching for information on the world wide web follows a similar model. It also proposes age related enhancements to available mathematical models, design guidelines where possible and future research topics in the area.

How to Support the Lay Users Evaluations of Medical Information on the Web?