Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation & Visualization in Cyberspace - Softcover

Gloor, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081763911X ISBN 13: 9780817639112

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 1997

Synopsis

The hypermedia authoring process has been vividly described in a special issue of the Economist as a combination of writing a book, a play, a film, and a radio or television show: A hypermedia document combines all these elements and adds some of its own. The author' s first job is to structure and explain all of the infor­ mation. The author then must distill the information into brief, descriptive nodes. Each node has to contain a Iist of the ingredients, and instructions on how the ingredients are mixed together to the greatest advantage. The structure of the material provided is translated into an architectural metaphor of some kind; much of the designer' s work is the creation of this imaginary space. Then, the designers must chart the details of what to animate, what to film, who to inter­ view, and how to arrange the information in the space tobe built [Eco95a]. This book presents guidelines, tools, and techniques for prospective authors such that they can design better hypermedia documents and applications. lt surveys the different techniques used to organize, search, and structure infor­ mation in a large information system. It then describes the algorithms used to locate, reorganize, and link data to enable navigation and retrieval. It Iooks in detail at the creation and presentation of certain types of visual information, namely algorithm animations. It introduces new mechanisms for editing audio and video data streams.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Gloor is currently an information systems and workflow specialist with the international accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand.

From the Back Cover

Elements of Hypermedia Design is a book about the conceptual and technical aspects of hypermedia publishing. Its goal is to give guidelines on how to design usable hypermedia documents and structured content. Both aspects of the term "hypermedia" are thoroughly covered, namely hypertext (non-sequential text) and multimedia (rich graphical and interactive content). Elements of Hypermedia Design will be of interest and utility to a broad spectrum of professionals in information systems, web-site design, multimedia interface designers, CD-ROM developers, and education multimedia designers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081763911X
• ISBN 13: 9780817639112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 417