Spatial hypertext and the practice of information triage

Published 1 January 1997Open access

Catherine C. Marshall, Frank Shipman

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Hypertext tools to support information triage should facilitate the rapid assimilation and assessment of new material, aid in the creation and management of a fluid category structure, allow readers to track their own progress through the information, and use minimum-effort methods to promote the intelligibility of results.

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Article Free Access Share on Spatial hypertext and the practice of information triage Authors: Catherine C. Marshall Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA and Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA and Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TXView Profile , Frank M. Shipman Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TXView Profile Authors Info & Claims HYPERTEXT '97: Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on HypertextApril 1997 Pages 124–133https://doi.org/10.1145/267437.267451Online:15 April 1997Publication History 109citation742DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations109Total Downloads742Last 12 Months18Last 6 weeks4 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

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