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C. Structural system for HyprLink
The system interfaces with device_1.
The elements are:
- locations -- each page is a location, e.g.: "ridjguid" and
"device_0" are locations
- context-detail pairs (of locations) --
E.g. (ridjguid - device_0)
- When experiencing a link, the page
in front of you is the context of the pair and the link on the page
is the detail of the pair
- The link on the page
is identified with the page it links to
- The context-detail pair is a general unit of structure
- The usefulness and power
of a link is based on the co-ordination of conceptual meaning
and machine-realizable structure
D. Reaching for an extension
There is something in each visitor's
experience called Water Trail
that roughly corresponds to the blue area in the graph.
- Something called Ridge Route roughly corresponds
to the red area
- And similarly for Kwik Tour and the yellow area
- One visitor's experience of Water Trail
is not necessarily the same as another visitor's
- Indeed, it seems likely that the two visitors could, if put to it, discover
differences in what they mean by Water Trail
- Anyone who actually explores Water Trail
(i.e., who explicates its details)
will almost certainly incorporate therein
the pages stage_2 and stage_3 and the links connecting those
two pages
- There is a core to Water Trail that includes those pages and links
that are incorporated in everybody's experience
(or everybody worth listening to) -- this core constitutes an
object with presumptive characteristics and features independent of
experience (Cf., Piaget, The Construction of Reality in the Child (1937, eng. transl. 1954),
Chapter 1, "The Development of Object Concept";
Because switching pages along the diagonal breaks up color blocs,
these correspondences are yet only pictorial and suggestive.
A more satisfactory, technical extension follows, but it is perhaps more difficult to see.
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All materials copyright by Robert Kovsky, 1997.