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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