Cognitive Psychology References for Hypertext Researchers
Here are some references that I've found especially interesting in
studying cognitive issues in the use hypertext. I am not a psychologist,
cognitive or otherwise, but I study methods of generating and evaluating
hypertext. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of the
area!
- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Why this format?
- Particularly great papers
- List of papers
- See Also
- About this document
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Rouet's paper and Charney's chapter are, to my mind, excellent surveys.
List of Papers
- Conference paper: Cognitive Processing of
Hyperdocuments
-
- Cognitive Processing of Hyperdocuments: When Does Nonlinearity
Help?
- by
- Jean-François Rouet
- Published in
- Proceeding of the fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext
- Which took place in
- Milano, Italy
- During
- 30 November - 4 December 1992
- Conference and Proceedings
-
- Edited by
- D. Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard and P. Paolini
- Published by
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press
- Organized by
- ACM SIGLINK, SIGIR, SIGOIS
- Comment
- An excellent, easy-to-read survey of significant results.
Hypertext and Cognition, edited by Jean-François Rouet,
Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon and Rand J. Spiro, and published by Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates in 1996 includes several interesting essays too.
- Book Chapter: The Effect of Hypertext on Processes of Reading
and Writing
-
- The Effect of Hypertext on Processes of Reading and Writing
- By
- Davida Charney
- Chapter
- 10
- Of
- Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and
Learning with Technology
- Edited by
- Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss
- Published by
- The Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
- during
- 1994
- Publisher's Address
- 10 Astor Place, New York, New York 10003-6981, USA
- with ISBN
- 0-87352-579-5 (cloth), 0-87352-580-9 (pbk.)
- Comment
- A great survey, longer than Rouet's.
Charney presents an excellent synthesis of psychological and linguistic
theory and experimentation to show what we know about the effects of
hypertext on readers, and how writers might adapt their writing to new
forms. She also points out where the research is lacking or
contradictory.
- Conference paper: Cognitive Overheads and Prostheses
-
- Title
- Cognitive Overheads and Prostheses: Some Issues in Evaluating
Hypertexts
- By
- Patricia Wright
- Published in
- Hypertext '91 Third ACM Conference on Hypertext
Proceedings
- Published by
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Month and Year
- 15 - 18 Dec 1991
- ISBN
- 0-89791-461-9
- Comment
- Some issues related to hypertext evaluation and use by people.
- Book: Hypertext: A Psychological Perspective
-
- Hypertext: A Psychological Perspective
- Edited by
- C. McKnight, A. Dillon and J. Richardson
- In series
- Ellis Horwood Series in Interactive Information Systems
- Published by
- Ellis Horwood Limited
- during
- 1993
- ISBN
- 0-13-441643-0
- LC Call Number
- QA76.76.H94 H95 1993
- Comment
- Largely about hypertext in learning environments but worth reading
for general applications also.
I have some other on-line material that might be of interest to you.
I have a couple of preferred definitions of hypertext and introductory references about hypertext. I have some references to online resources that I collected while studying a course about cognitive aspects of information systems.
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