Heuristics for Cognitive Tools

Published 1 January 1992

Harold Thimbleby

Citations10

TL;DR

An analogy is made between printing technology and hypertext, where printing is an important tool for learming, but hypertext’s potential has yet to be realised and heuristics, are available to help hypertext and other computer-based systems transcend their present condescension of the user's mind.

Abstract

An analogy is made between printing technology and hypertext. Printing is an important tool for learming, but hypertext's potential has yet to be realised. However, heuristics, are available to help hypertext and other computer-based systems transcend their present condescension of the user's mind.

Keywords

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