Facilitating the development of representations in hypertext with IDE

摘要: Hypertext systems are used for a variety of representational tasks, many that involve fairly formalized structures. Because hypertext generally intended developing informal (unstructured data) and semi-formal (semantic networks) structures, more formal structures can be difficult. Regular patterns in must often recreated from primitive elements (individual nodes links) resulting high overhead cost. In this paper we describe the Instructional Design Environment, or IDE, system application facilitates rapid accurate creation regular network hypertext. IDE focuses on task instructional design, but its facilities general useful to representation tasks. features structure accelerators provide simple menu interfaces (1) define out typed node link connections, (2) create new types contain structured content, (3) tailor interface creating cards, links focus attention during different stages task. These mechanisms allow user environment better meet his her needs. We also report field use by designers.