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The hype in hypertext: a critique
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Source Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext table of contents
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Pages: 325 - 330  
Year of Publication: 1987
ISBN:0-89791-340-X
Author
Jef Raskin  Information Appliance, 1014 Hamilton Court, Menlo Park, CA
Sponsor
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Hypertext has received a lot of mostly uncritical attention. The author sees it as one part inspiration and nine parts hyperbole. A number of user interface and technical problems are discussed.


REFERENCES

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Jeff Conklin, Hypertext: an introduction and survey, Computer, v.20 n.9, p.17-41, Sept. 1987  [doi>10.1109/MC.1987.1663693]

CITED BY  3
Nancy Kaplan , Stuart Moulthrop, Where no mind has gone before: ontological design for virtual spaces, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology, p.206-216, September 19-23, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jim Whitehead, As we do write: hyper-terms for hypertext, ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, v.9 n.2-3, p.8-18, June-October 2000
Frank G. Halasz, Reflections on "Seven Issues": hypertext in the era of the web, ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD), v.25 n.3, August 2001

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Hypertext/hypermedia


General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Human Factors, Languages, Management, Performance, Theory


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