Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Shape and the Emergent Property of Genre in Evaluating Digital Documents (01 Aug 1997) Information architectures need not be based on the forms that evolved in the analog domain. However, one of the negative side effects of new information forms is the disorientation users experience when their expectations for organization are violated. Growing out of concerns with the navigation problems that seem to occur in large digital environments, and the poor showing of educational hypermedia in comparisons with traditional information presentation media such as paper, we are examining the perception of shape (structure) in various discourse types. Lately, this work is taking me into the virtual domain with studies of users in the university's CAVE environment. Article URL: http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~adillon/publications/journey&destination.pdf Read 92 more articles from findability.org sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy