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It is important that designers of hypertext do not assume that the way information is presented in traditional media such as paper books will necessarily be effective in hypertext. Several studies have shown that graphics presented with text on a screen are not necessarily used effectively, or even used at all. In our study, we explored three ways of presenting textual and graphical information about geographical locations and objects. In all cases, the user had to point with a mouse to a item name in order to see text, and the text appeared near the mouse cursor. In one presentation style, no graphic was present. In a second style, a graphic was present, but the text appeared as a caption. In the hypertext style, the user pointed to item names on the graphic. The results showed that the hypertext style resulted in about 20% better learning of both spatial information (which was illustrated by the graphic) and of information not illustrated by the graphic.
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Instone, K., Brown, E., Leventhal, L., Teasley, B. (1993). The challenge of effectively integrating graphics into hypertext. In: Bass, L.J., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 753. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57433-6_58
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