Elements of Hypermedia Design Techniques for Navigation and Visualization in Cyberspace P.A. Gloor, Coopers & Lybrand, Switzerland 0-8176-3911-X * 1996-Winter * $46.95 * Softcover * 416 pages * 200 Illustrations

• Preface
  • Acknowledgments
• Structuring Information
  • 1. Short Introduction to Information Retrieval
    • 1.1 Classification of Retrieval Techniques
    • 1.2 Text Retrieval Using Inverted Indexing
    • 1.3 Automatic Indexing
    • 1.4 The Vector Space Model
    • 1.5 Document Clustering
    • 1.6 Rule-based Expert Systems for Information Retrieval
    • 1.7 Hypermedia and Information Retrieval
  • 2. User Modeling
    • 2.1 Classifications and Taxonomy
    • 2.2 User Modeling in UC, the UNIX Consultant
    • 2.3 User Modeling in Information Retrieval
    • 2.4 User Modeling in I3R
  • 3. World Wide Web Introduction
    • 3.1 WWW Overview
    • 3.2 Basic WWW Navigation Mechanisms
    • 3.3 Hyper-G
  • 4. Programming the Web
    • 4.1 CGI
    • 4.2 Java
    • 4.3 JavaScript
    • 4.4 Tcl
    • 4.5 General Magic Telescript
  • 5. The 7 Design Concepts for Navigation in Cyberspace
  • 6. Linking
    • 6.1 Static Versus Dynamic Linking
    • 6.2 MICROCOSM - A System based on Dynamic Linking
    • 6.3 Automatic Link Generation - the Link Apprentice
    • 6.4 Breadcrumbs and Bookmarks
  • 7. Searching
    • 7.1 WAIS
    • 7.2 SWISH
    • 7.3 Robots
    • 7.4 Harvest
  • 8. Sequentialization
    • 8.1 Guided Tours and Travel Holidays
    • 8.2 Guided Tours and Tabletops in NoteCards
    • 8.3 Scripted Paths
    • 8.4 Footsteps
  • 9. Hierarchy
    • 9.1 Electronic Table of Contents
    • 9.2 IGD - Hierarchical Display of Hypertext Structure
    • 9.3 Tree-Maps: Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structure
    • 9.4 Multitrees
    • 9.5 Zooming Into Hierarchically Structured Information
    • 9.6 SuperBook - Automatically Structured Documents
  • 10. Similarity
    • 10.1 Electronic Index - Similarity by Common Keywords
    • 10.2 SEMNET - A Testbed for Three-Dimensional Knowledge Base Representation
    • 10.3 The CYC Browser
    • 10.4 VISAR - Navigation by Inference
  • 11. Mapping
    • 11.1 Intermedia Web View
    • 11.2 Fish Eye Views
    • 11.3 Graph-based Fish Eye Views
    • 11.4 XEROX Information Visualizer
    • 011.5 Mapping the Web
  • 12. Agents
    • 12.1 Guides: Orientation Assistants
    • 12.2 Agents
    • 12.3 Oval - A Toolkit to Build Information Exploration Interfaces
    • 12.4 Conclusions
  • 13. Cybertools - Overview
    • 13.1 The Gloor/Dynes Hypertext Engine
    • 13.2 Webs
    • 13.3 Guided Tour through Gloor/Dynes Hypertext Engine
    • 13.4 Conversion to Hypertext
  • 14. Cybertools - Hierarchy with Hiermap, Viewfinder and Navigation Diamond
    • 14.1 The Navigation Diamond
    • 14.2 Viewfinder
    • 14.3. Hiermap
  • 15. Cybertools - Sequentialization with Paths
  • 16. Cybertools - Similarity with CYBERMAP
    • 16.1 Motivation
    • 16.2 Why Overview Maps?
    • 16.3 The Ideal CYBERMAP
  • 17. Cybermap - System Architecture
    • 17.1 Identification of Hyperdrawers
    • 17.2 The Model of the User
    • 17.3 Application Structure
    • 17.4 Preprocessing
    • 17.5 Analysis of Structure and Contents of the Document
    • 17.6 Computing the Similarity Between Nodes
    • 17.7 Dynamic Linking with CYBERMAP
  • 18. CYBERMAP - Implementation Issues
    • 18.1 Implementing CYBERMAP on the Connection Machine
    • 18.2 Enabling CYBERMAP for the Web
    • 18.3 Implementing CYBERMAP for the Web
    • 18.4 Evolution of the CYBERMAP GUI
    • 18.5 A Sample Guided Tour
    • 18.6 CYBERMAPs for Multimedia Data
  • 19. Building Hierarchical Cybermaps
    • 19.1 Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms
    • 19.2 Hierarchical CYBERMAP Example - News Selection
  • 20. Cybertrees: Tree-Shaped Overview Maps
    • 20.1 Cybertree Algorithms
    • 20.2 Comparison between CYBERMAP and Cybertree
    • 20.3 Cybertree Examples
    • 20.4 Possible Extensions
  • 21. Conclusions
• II Visualization
  • 22. Introduction to Algorithm Animation
  • 23. Animated Algorithms
    • 23.1 System Overview
    • 23.2 Project Goals
    • 23.3 The Animation System
  • 24. User Interface Design For Algorithm Animation
  • 25. The Art of Algorithm Animation
    • 25.1 How to Animate Algorithms
    • 25.2 Requirements to the Algorithm Animator
    • 25.3 Automatic Algorithm Animation
  • 26. Educational Aspects
    • 26.1 Educational Benefits of Algorithm Animation
    • 26.2 Structure-Based Algorithm Animation
    • 26.3 Find The Best Pseudocode
  • 27. Animating Proofs
    • 27.1 Components of the Proof Visualization System
    • 27.2 Master Teaching
  • 28. Algorithm Animation by Scripting
  • 29. Conclusions
• III Multimedia Editing
  • 30. Introduction
  • 31. Related Work
  • 32. VideoScheme System Overview
  • 33. VideoScheme Language Overview
  • 34. VideoScheme Applications
    • 34.1 Automating Repetitive Tasks
    • 34.2 Authoring with Programming
    • 34.3 Cut Detection
    • 34.4 Automatic Video Analysis
  • 35. Conclusion
• IV Hypermedia Publishing
  • 36. Introduction
    • 36.1 Related Work
    • 36.2 Background
  • 37. DAGS 92 CD-ROM
    • 37.1 System Description
    • 37.2 DAGS 92 Sample Guided Tour
    • 37.3 DAGS 93 CD-ROM
  • 38. DAGS 95 On the Web
    • 38.1 System Description
    • 38.2 DAGS95 Sample Guided Tour
  • 39. The Development Process
    • 39.1 Producing Digital Talks for CD-ROM
    • 39.2 Producing Digital Talks for the Web
    • 39.3 Automation of the Development Process
    • 39.4 Producing the Hypertext for CD-ROM
    • 39.5 Producing the Hypertext for the Web
  • 40. Extensions and Improvements
    • 40.1 Obstacles in the Creation of Digital Talks
    • 40.2 Improving the Development Process
    • 40.3 CD-ROM versus WWW
    • 40.4 Improving the Product Design
  • 41. Conclusions
• References