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The matters that really matter for hypertext usability

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HYPERTEXT '89: Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext

Pages 239 - 248

https://doi.org/10.1145/74224.74244

Published: 01 November 1989 Publication History

Abstract

We compare 92 benchmark measurements of various usability issues related to hypertext which have been published in the hypertext literature in order to find which ones have shown the largest effects.

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Index Terms

The matters that really matter for hypertext usability
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information storage systems
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Implementation management
        Hardware selection

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