Hypermedia

The aim of this paper is develop a software module to test the connectivity of various odd-sized HRs and attempted to answer an open question whether the node connectivity of an odd-sized HR is equal to its degree. We attempted to answer this question by explicitly testing the node connectivity's of various odd-sized HRs. In this paper, we also study the properties, constructions, and connectivity of hyper-rings. We usually use a graph to represent the architecture of an interconnection network, where nodes represent processors and edges represent communication links between pairs of processors. Although the number of edges in a hyper-ring is roughly twice that of a hypercube with the same number of nodes, the diameter and the connectivity of the hyper-ring are shorter and larger, respectively, than those of the corresponding hypercube. These properties are advantageous to hyper-ring as desirable interconnection networks. This paper discusses the reliability in hyper-ring. One of the major goals in network design is to find the best way to increase the system's reliability. The reliability of a distributed system depends on the reliabilities of its communication links and computer elements.

Como instituições mediadoras da cultura envolvidas na educação, os museus ao mesmo tempo que exibem uma resistência organizacional previsível às mudanças de qualquer natureza também buscam adaptar-se ao novo contexto sócio-tecnológico marcado pelos vários impactos das tecnologias de informação e comunicação e pela pós-modernidade. A partir deste premissas, exploramos como as tecnologias de hipermídia estão sendo utilizadas pelos museus virtuais, entendidos já como forma de complementar as ações de suas matrizes "reais", em dois campos: a personalização e a contextualização da visita, seguindo uma lógica de subjetividade, e de interação social, na forma de visitas cooperativas, de comunidades virtuais e de redes sociais ,operacionalizando a lógica da sociedade-rede. Em seu conjunto, estas iniciativas responderiam à exortação de um novo papel social dos museu, capaz agora de reconhecer a multiplicidade de "vozes" presentes na sociedade e assumindo um papel de destaque no fomento da participação democrática. Palavras-chave: museus virtuais, hipermídia, personalização.

Este artículo presenta el informe de resultados del proyecto de investigación/creación: “Memorias y caminos, plataforma hipermedia para ejercicios autobiográficos”. En un primer momento se presentan los marcos de motivación del trabajo y enseguida los marcos conceptuales y de diseño de la obra bajo las categorías de virtualización, juego, interactividad e intermedialidad, así como un análisis de varias entradas autobiográficas de la obra que corresponden a la noción de presencia mediática. El artículo termina con una presentación e ilustración de la forma como se accede y navega el Hipermedia.

The efficient management and retrieval of information via dedicated devices and data structures has been investigated since the early days of Vannevar Bush's seminal article As We May Think introducing the Memex. However, nowadays information is usually fragmented across different media types, devices as well as digital and physical environments, and we are often struggling to retrieve specific information. We discuss three main issues to be addressed when developing solutions for managing information in these co-called cross-media information spaces. First, we have a look at an extensible cross-media linking solution based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel where information can be integrated across applications, devices as well as digital and physical information environments. We then outline some of the limitations of existing digital document formats which are often just a simulation of paper documents and their affordances on desktop computers, and discuss more flexible document representations for cross-media information spaces. Further, new forms of human-information interaction and cross-media user interfaces—including some recent work on dynamic data physicalisation—are discussed. A number of research artefacts are used to illustrate different aspects of the presented data-centric approach for cross-media information spaces and architectures. Last but not least, we provide an outlook on how the embedding of the presented concepts at the level of an operating system might ultimately lead to new possibilities for cross-media information management and innovative forms of human-information interaction.

Hypermedia Adalah komputer berbasis sistem temu kembali informasi yang memungkinkan pengguna untuk memperoleh atau menyediakan akses ke rekaman teks, audio dan video, foto, dan grafis komputer yang berhubungan dengan topik tertentu. Hypermedia merupakan istilah yang diciptakan oleh Ted Nelson. Hypermedia juga digunakan sebagai perpanjangan logis dari istilah hypertext di mana grafis, audio, video, teks biasa dan hyperlink jalin untuk menciptakan umumnya non-linear media informasi.

Motivation in the domain of education is concerned as one of the most essential components to support learning process and supply high-quality learning since it improves personal growth and adjustment. Motivation is additionally a significant factor in foreign language education and achievement. This research aimed at exploring the effect of hypermedia on motivation in 36 elementary Iranian EFL male learners. Thirty six students from two classes sharing a similar social and educational background selected by a background questionnaire and a language proficiency test partook in the research. Then eighteen students in each class at the elementary level of proficiency were randomly assigned into either experimental or control group. For a period of four weeks in eight sessions the educational software, Tell Me More was offered to the experimental group. After eight sessions both groups were retested through a motivation questionnaire to examine the effect of software on learners' motivation. The findings provided evidence that hypermedia helps to enhance significantly the elementary EFL learners' motivation toward learning English.

With the rapid increase of digital information we are dealing with in our daily work, we face significant document retrieval and discovery challenges. We present a novel document retrieval and discovery framework that addresses some of the limitations of existing solutions. An innovative aspect of our solution is the combination of implicit and explicit links between documents in the retrieval as well as in the visualisation process, in order to improve document retrieval and discovery. Our framework exploits implicit relationships between documents-defined by the similarity of their content as well as their metadata-and explicit links (hyperlinks) defined between documents based on a third-party link service. Further, the software framework can be extended with arbitrary third-party visualisations. Last but not least, our search query interface offers advanced features not available in most existing document retrieval systems.

Research about multimedia news storytelling contains several empirical studies, but these lack a theoretical foundation.
This article proposes a transdisciplinary foundation of multimedia news storytelling, based on semiotics and narratology.
First, the bases of multimedia news storytelling are explained using a hypothetical-deductive methodology and the
semiotic categories of ideation-composition-reception. Second, based on narratology, the multimedia storytelling process
is described, starting from the pre-compositive stage, in which journalists assemble the stories, to the final stage of
navigation by the participatory users. The combination of both theoretical foundations allows us to explain the nature of
multimedia news storytelling, based on three elements: 1) syntactic coherence between the multiple languages used, 2)
open and collective authorship, and 3) participatory reception by the audience

El propósito de esta investigación es abordar la creatividad desde una óptica antropológica que englobe los fundamentos biológicos y cognitivos que participaron en la consolidación de un lenguaje creativo, así como su aplicación en la construcción de narrativas en la sociedad.
Para comprobar si los procesos narrativos de antaño son aplicables a las nuevas tendencias narrativas se atenderá a un modelo de análisis estructural: por una parte, se estudiarán las características textuales de la épica oral griega, por otra las inherentes al videojuego, demostrando los aspectos comunes entre ambas narrativas.
En definitiva, se pretende demostrar que el lenguaje creativo es un proceso innato al ser humano que se desarrolla gracias a sus capacidades simbólicas durante la evolución. Las reglas que dominan el proceso de creación, pese a escapar a la comprensión humana, han sido configuradas a través de procesos miméticos culturales a la manera del aprendizaje de lenguas. Gracias a esta habilidad el individuo será capaz de materializar de forma concreta o abstracta una representación cultural como la narrativa, que mantiene intacta su estructura de representación y sólo difiere en los modos tecnológicos que le son aplicados.

Note: This is an historical paper from the early days of hypertext. It may be more interesting for its historical value than for current theory.

ABSTRACT
There are at present two diverging views regarding the future shape of the computer and computing in human life. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) approach, and the functional approach. The AI approach regards the computer as a device which will eventually imitate human cognitive operations, to eventually substitute for human work process. The functional approach sees the computer as a tool to be used by humans
much like a hammer, or a screwdriver.

My tendency in this discussion is to reject both approaches. The AI approach is far from realization at this point. Computers are a long way from being able to imitate human cognitive processes, especially realization and utilization of the cultural and environmental knowledge which underlies most everyday actions and thought processes, which have been constant for at least 25,000 years.

Brown University, being a small university was able to punch well above its weight  This short paper singles out one cross-disciplinary institute at Brown that may not leap to mind when thinking about these fruitful years, but which has had an outreach well beyond the Brown Campus. It was my privilege to head up the Office of Program Analysis at the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) in the 1980s. In 1984 as IRIS was being organized, then Provost Maurice Glicksman with uncanny vision felt that this new Institute, devoted to research in computing and information technology in higher education, needed a social science branch. This unit within IRIS would be charged to assess the effects of digital technology as it was gradually introduced to higher education.  In 1984 only 25% of the senior class at Brown claimed to have any experience with computers or computing. In the same year, 100% of the freshman class claimed to have had some computing experience. IRIS developed the first hypertext program for use in the classroom. Our office was charged with studying its effects. This short paper provides the outcome for this research effort

Over the last decade, research on adaptive and distributed user interfaces (DUIs) has increased. We also witness a growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, allowing digital user interfaces (UIs) to communicate with physical objects and vice versa through so-called hybrid user interfaces. There exist various solutions to manage adaptive, distributed or hybrid UIs. However, none of them covers all three aspects and users have to deal with multiple applications and configurations when developing adaptive distributed hybrid user interfaces. We introduce the eSPACE reference framework and conceptual model unifying the domains of adaptive, distributed and hybrid interfaces. While our reference framework has been inspired by the CAMELEON reference framework, the conceptual model is based on the Resource-Selector-Link (RSL) hypermedia meta-model. We propose an approach for adaptive distributed hybrid user interfaces where users can author their user interfaces based on the different levels of abstraction introduced by our reference framework. We further present a use case illustrating the extensibility, flexibility and reusability offered by our unified approach and discuss potential future work.

New forms of shared or social annotation practices are changing the way scientific research is conducted and transforming the machinery of knowledge creation itself. Yet, our knowledge of how best to use social annotation systems and related technologies to help facilitate learning and improve the quality of instruction across the curriculum is largely uncharted territory. This paper proposes that to realize the full potential of social annotation for learning, we need to know much more about how various factors affect requirements for social annotation systems across the curriculum. In what follows, we discuss a variety of factors that affect social annotation practices and influence the design of annotation systems to support learning environments. We further describe an adaptable annotation and hypermedia authoring system which is now in use and available for research into this promising area.

This paper is an analysis of hypertext narrative, or in other words, of those novels and short stories that can be read only using a computer. Special emphasis is placed upon the specific features of the random access memory, which enables the writer/reader to interact with the hypertext, and produces a new definition of "writing space". A parallel is then drawn between the hypertext concept and the idea of the labyrinth, in order to see to what extent hypertexts can be classified using labyrinth classification. Recent approaches in semiotics which can be related to these themes are also briefly examined.