HYPERMEDIA

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HYPERMEDIA

• LASHEKA GULLEY
• ERICA EWELL
• BLAKE CHERRY

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CONTENTS(1)

• Definitions
• Hypermedia
• Hypertext

• History and how it developed
• Aspen Movie Map
• WWW
• Hyper wave

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CONTENTS(2)

• Ted Nelson
• Xanadu

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CONTENTS(3)

• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Works Cited

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DEFINITIONS(1)

• HYPERMEDIA is an extension to hypertext that
  supports linking graphics, sound, and video
  elements in addition to text elements.
• HYPERTEXT is a special type of database system,
  in which objects (text, pictures, music,
  programs, and so on) can be creatively linked to
  each other.

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ASPEN MOVIE MAP

• This is an early example of a hypermedia system.
  It allows users to take a virtual tour through
  Aspen, Colorado.

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WWW or World Wide Web

• WWW is a system of interlinked, hypertext
  documents that runs over the Internet. A user can
  view Web pages that contain text, images, and
  other multimedia and navigates between them using
  hyperlinks.
• It was created around 1990 by a Britain named Tim
  Berners-Lee and a Belgian named Robert Cailliau
  working in Geneva, Switzerland.

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ULTRAWAVE OR HYPERWAVE

• Ultra waves are a concept used in science fiction
  to represent transmissions or signals that may
  move faster than light through either normal
  space, alternate space, such as hyperspace or
  subspace. Waves that exist is hyperspace are
  known as Hyper waves.

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TED NELSON (1)

• Theodor Holm Nelson was an American sociologist,
  philosopher, and pioneer of information
  technology.
• He is the father of hypermedia and has worked
  to make computers easily accessible to ordinary
  people.
• He is also credited with the first use of the
  words tranclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity,
  and teledildonics.

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TED NELSON(2)

• Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the
  goal of creating a computer network with a simple
  user interface.
• He is currently working on a new information
  structure, ZigZag, which is described on the
  Xanadu project website.

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PROJECT ZANADU

• Founded by Ted Nelson, this was the first
  hypertext project.
• It began as a word processor capable of storing
  multiple versions, and displaying the differences
  between these versions.
• Nelson developed the concept of zippered lists
  that allowed compound documents to be formed from
  pieces of other documents, a concept known as
  transclusion.

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PROJECT ZANADU(2)

• In 1967, while working for Harcourt-Brace,
  Nelson named his project Xanadu, in honor of the
  poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• In 1972, Cal Daniels completed the first
  demonstration version of the Xanadu software on a
  computer.
• In 1998, Nelson released the source code to
  Xanadu as Project Unadax , in hopes that the
  technique and algorithms used could turn over
  some of the software patents.

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ADVANTAGES

• One of the major advantages of hypermedia is the
  ability to quickly follow associations and look
  up related material.
• Another advantage of hypermedia for learning
  applications is that they can be fun to use.

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DISADVANTAGES

• The ease of browsing may increase the risk of the
  learner skipping through the materials and
  getting fragmented information.
• An addition problem with hypermedia is that its
  use involves a certain cognitive overhead.

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Works Cited

• All information came from http//en.www.wikipedia.
  org/wiki