Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia

1 Foundations of Hypermedia Design.- and Overview.- Hypermedia application design: a structured approach.- Experiences in authoring hypermedia: creating better presentations.- What matters in developing interfaces for hyperdocument presentation?.- Interaction in hypermedia systems: from browsing to conversation.- 2 Metaphors for Hypermedia Interfaces.- and Overview.- Metaphor engineering: a participatory approach.- Metaphor-based user interfaces for hyperspaces.- Architecture and user interface of the IDEAS intelligent documentation system.- 3 Evaluation and Critical Aspects of Hypermedia Design.- and Overview.- An evaluation model based on experimental methods applied to the; design of hypermedia user interfaces.- Never mind the theory, feel the data: Observations on the methodological problems of user interface design.- Design of hypermedia interfaces in commercial applications.- 4 Detailed Design Proposals and Guidelines.- and Overview.- A dialogue approach to graphical information access.- Annotations are not 'for free': The need for runtime layer support in hypertext engines.- Three fundamental elements of visual rhetoric in hypertext.- Some issues of defining a user interface with general purpose hypermedia toolkits.- Analysis of feature usage in access to on-line information.- Facing technical documentation with hypertext: reflections on the systematic design, construction and presentation.- 5 The ESPRIT Project HIFI.- HIFI - Hypertext interface to external databases.- The ESPRIT project HIFI medical application.- HIFINBIPOP - Hypertext Interface to FINancial data in BIPOP bank (Italy).- Appendix: Addresses of the Authors.

How to design and develop, maintain, and use a hypermedia interface is the topic of this book. Based on an ESPRIT workshop, it discusses actual methodological issues comprising theoretical design aspects as well as detailed practical design proposals.