Hypermedia operating systems
Peter J. Nürnberg, John J. Leggett, Erich R. Schneider, John L. Schnase · 1996
Hypermediais often viewed as either a paradigm for human-computer interaction or information organization.Human-computer interaction provides a view of hypermedia that involves the creation, manipulation, and access of information through a "point-and-click" navigation mechanism.Information organization provides a view of hypermedia that involves the storage of information as a set of data and metadata objects, where metadata objects capture structural relationships among information objects.This paper describes a third view of hypermediahypermedia as a computing paradigm.In this paper, we explore the implications of pushing hypermedia beyond its traditional role in human-computer interaction and information organization into the computer's core operating environment.We believe the resulting hypermedia operating systems provide a new paradigm for computing -one in which human-computer interaction, information storage and retrieval, programming, and control are integrated in a common conceptual framework.We discuss the basic concepts of hypermedia operating systems and describe a general hypermedia operating system architecture and prototype.While this work represents only a beginning, we feel that viewing hypermedia as a computing paradigm offers a broad new field of research.