Linking by interacting: A paradigm for authoring hypertext

Abstract

Authoring hypertext structures has always been a difficult task. The cognitive overhead problem, well known from authors when creating structured hyperdocuments, has been tackled in a variety of forms. In this paper we advocate that capture-based systems should support flexible hypertext structures generated by linking by interacting operations. These include linking by capturing operations - which capture user-interactivity during a live session - and linking by augmenting operations - which allow the captured contents to be extended with complementary operations available outside the live session. We demonstrate how such combination leads to the generation of flexible hypertext structures by presenting our implementation in the educational domain.