Assisting two-way mapping generation in hypermedia workspace Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • This paper reports our study of a two-way mapping generation tool called Mapping Assistant, as an extension to the Spatial Hypermedia system VITE. Mapping Assistant has been designed to overcome the problem arising due to the difficulty of users in generating an initial two-way mapping for VITE. We have developed VITE to allow users to interact with information in a semi-formal workspace. Creating two-way mapping profiles is a vital step for projecting structured information into a spatial hypermedia system. A previous study of VITE indicated that users spent much of their time developing an initial mapping before working on the information task. We designed the Mapping Assistant to assist users by generating a quick initial mapping from the data entered by the user and reduce the cognitive and mental load on the user. This research studies users' impression of the Mapping Assistant. The results indicate that the users liked the Mapping Assistant and found it useful, but comments from users also reveal possible directions for further improvement of the tool and its design. Copyright 2010 ACM.

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

author list (cited authors)

  • Hsieh, H., Pauls, K., Jansen, A., Nimmagadda, G., & Shipman, F.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Hsieh, Haowei||Pauls, Katherine||Jansen, Amber||Nimmagadda, Gautam||Shipman, Frank

publication date

  • January 2010