As if one draws the phenomenon of the disorientation in hyperspace (draws rarely in hypertext) designates, which readers can experience with the reading of hypertext documents.

With a conventional text, which is rezipiert usually serially (from the beginning to the end), the reader has usually a clear orientation, which parts of the text he already read. In the case of a printing element this orientation results from in the case of electronic documents usually navigation aids such as roll bars is already indicated.

Hypertext

With the linear rezipierten hypertext these mechanisms are missing. Since the document is distributed on pages, which are hyper+on the left of linked only over with one another, and which can around-jump readers after own discretion within the text, he does not know reliably, which parts of the text he did not read yet. In addition it comes that on-line made available texts can be changed, so that the reader must count at any time on the fact that information already read changed - or was deleted - and others were added. This situation is felt of readers, that are used traditional to texts, usually as unsatisfactory. They feel "“lost"” in the Textkorpus, instead of feeling the freedom of election as enriching. A further, substantial aspect of the imbedding more numerously left into an hypertext is that that the reader is enticed to clicking - even if a correctly formulated text is present, which can be read "“from A to Z"”. This seduction of the reader has economic extents, as the fundamental business idea of the context depending on-line Advertising is based on it: the reader is lured to another place in the hyperspace (advertising banner, Popup, Dialer).

Guideline assistance

Mechanisms, which are already used for printed media, can be used also in the Hypermediabereich: Table of contents, register, glossary, footnote. Hypertext systems have own navigation mechanisms, for example the pre and back Buttons of current Webbrowser or Breadcrumb navigation in such a way specified. However these mechanisms must be learned by the reader only, what is additionally made more difficult by deviating implementations in different systems. Special guideline assistance for hypertexts such as search function, Sitemap, bookmark, History, Tabbed Browsing can draws in hyperspace dilemma of the reader at least lindern. A successful navigation should give answers on the questions: What is Where do I find Where am What here can I Where do I Where can I How do I return, further again, again

Serendipity

In addition proponents of the hypertext paradigm state that the reader often encounters with the search for certain information in an hypertext system further, likewise interesting information - which is not considered as accompaniment, but one of the desired use forms. This coincidental finding of information, for which one did not look actually, is called Serendipity effect (Rainer Kuhlen 1991). Who it is however used to read a text (korpus), interesting for it, "“from A to Z"” with this view of the things hardly will probably contently give oneself.

Since hypertext is a comparatively new form of the information representation, can be assumed both the quality of the programs used for its representation and the acceptance of nonlinear texts will improve with the time.

Literature

• J. Conklin, Hypertext: A survey and introduction, IEEE computer, 20 (9): 17-41, 1987
• Deborah M. Edwards, Lynda Hardman, draws in hyperspace: cognitive mapping and navigation in A hypertext environment, in: McAleese, Ray (OD.): Hypertext: theory into practice, Edinburgh 1999, 90-105.

See also

• Information flooding
• Web Design
• Webometrie
• Portal: Knowledge, information, communication and media

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