Identifying and using hypermedia browsing patterns. From: Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Mullier, Duncan; Hobbs, David; Moore, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Hypermedia offers benefits for users who wish to find information and users who wish to learn about a particular topic (Jonassen & Grabinger, 1991). However, hypermedia is also plagued by drawbacks that were identified early in its inception (Conklin, 1987) but which are still present (Theng & Thimbleby, 1998). Recent hypermedia research has focused on alleviating one of the classic problems of hypermedia, the problem of the user becoming lost while using it. One such approach is c...