Questions for Form A

Example(s) of a landmark in a hypertext might include:
a)
a mountain in a valley.
b)
the Home card in a HyperCard application.
c)
the top-level help node in WorldWideWeb.
d)
all of the above.
e)
exactly 2 out of choices a through c (which?).
f)
none of the above.

Please briefly justify your answer.

Would you recommend random selection of the next link to follow from an anchor that has a number of associated links? Please explain at least one pro and one con.

Discount Usability Engineering
a)
is useful in hypertext applications when a large number of design decisions must be made.
b)
provides quantitative test results that allow proving which of several alternatives is superior.
c)
helps discount the effect naive users' opinions have on systems they should not use.
d)
all of the above.
e)
exactly 2 out of choices a through c (which?).
f)
none of the above.

Please briefly justify your answer.

In Intermedia, there are several databases. One deals with links and anchors, etc., and has several relations. Please briefly describe in English what the contents are of those relations, and quickly outline how they are used and managed.

If one were to build a link service capability into an operating system, how would that make it easier to have hypertext-like operations incorporated into and across a range of applications?


fox@cs.vt.edu
Tue Aug 30 03:45:05 EDT 1994