Spatial metaphors and disorientation in hypertext browsing

The spatial metaphor can be used as a framework for exploration process, refine their information goals (Foss explaining and designing tools that alleviate disorientation problems in 1989a. Foss 1989b. McAleese 1989). . ~ ~ ~ , ~, hypertext systems. The approach based on this metaphor would involve The disorientation problem occurs when the user 'gets developing tools analogous to navigational aids in physical environments and applying analogous concepts from research on human spatial lost' in the display network or has difficulty deciding which processing and navigation in physical soaces. Research on hvoertext node to view next (Dillon et 19907 Gygi 1990, Edwards . . .A browsing with respect to the spatial metaphor is reviewed and contrasted and Hardman 1989). The decision concerning which node to I with the larger task context where users are trying to explore, learn, I analyse, and summarize the contents of the hypertext space.