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This
work closes the experiences developed in Hangar.
We return to similar concepts which you can find in our first
experience, REN,
and in this case our aim is to take REN
into the net. We change the paper pieces by hypertext files and
the marked lines by hypertext links. We want to build a maze composed
by hypertext documents very interconnected, where the user could
be orientated by the background page color. We are interested
in to get a consistent visual interface which finds compatible
different pages based on very different esthetic points of view.
One
more time, each team works alone and doesn't know what the rest
of people are doing. Afterwards, a protocol based on a very simple
design rules allows to get one navigation structure where all
contents are together in an orderly but not obviously way. We
show now a previous simplified prototype:
We
hide intentionally some information because we like that the user
takes decisions using a mental map. One interface like that could
be a nightmare for a usability engineer, but we think that it's
very interesting because it provides a navigation experience closer
to the way like we explore the real world. When we proposed this
work we were not interested in to follow the famous and obsessive
three-mouse-cliks law which tries to link two points by the shortest
way. Here, this law is replaced by the pleasure of exploring a
suggestive visual space.
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