Hypermedia and Cognition: Designing for Comprehension

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 57-66

  Thüring, Manfred ^a   Hannemann, Jörg ^a   Haake, Jörg M ^b  

^a Universitätsstr ^*  (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IPSI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

GRAPHICAL BROWSERS; HIGHER ORDER INFORMATION UNITS; HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; HYPERDOCUMENTS; HYPERMEDIA; MENTAL MODEL;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029359332     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/208344.208348     Document Type: Article

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