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O'Mara, Sharyn; Salen, Katie – Visible Language, 1997
States that the transition from book to screen requires analytical comparison, and that the structure of the book cannot be translated to the screen without consideration of new spatial practices afforded by hypermedia "architexture." Discusses similarities between digital and printed documents and the implications for the digital…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Text, Hypermedia, Models

Storkerson, Peter; Wong, Janine – Visible Language, 1997
Posits that intelligibility is a persistent problem in interactive multimedia and hypermedia. Describes the Art of Memory, a visual and symbolic mnemonic method used to map new information onto familiar and symbolically different structures. Presents the Art of Memory as a way to offer insight into intelligibility. (PA)
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Information Processing, Memory, Mnemonics

Salen, Katie – Visible Language, 1993
Suggests that visual signs help to define form and structure and are significant in their semantic function. Discusses a series of typographic studies that examine the relationship of designer, text and interpreter in the dialectical process of communication in which meaning is rendered and made explicit. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Semantics, Syntax

Gilreath, Charles T. – Visible Language, 1993
Proposes a new taxonomy for classifying the graphic cues commonly used in visually informative text. Subsumes spatial and mark cueing (lines such as dividers, guidelines, network links, and visual tags) under a new concept called diagraphic cueing. Surveys various forms of graphic cues. (RS)
Descriptors: Classification, Cues, Higher Education, Layout (Publications)

Poggenpohl, Sharon Helmer – Visible Language, 1998
Examines the challenge and future of language, typography, and technology in various juxtapositions. Compares book and screen, typographic history and future. Discusses need for language reform and user studies, and examines technology's impact on human communication. Uses an "abecedary" order to make unexpected connections and provide…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Futures (of Society), Graphic Arts, Language Role