Frode Hegland
ABSTRACT
We live in a time of wondrous technologies, but plain old academic articles remain hamstrung by clinging to the affordances of the paper media of the past. The affordances offered by digital media are not present in any depth; there is simply copy and paste and blue hyperlinks. The Visual-Meta approach makes even basic PDF documents contain rich metadata, which allows them to be active rather than passive knowledge components, and this can be done in any media in which the document can be rendered.
This paper presents Visual-Meta and explains what it is, what the basic benefits are, and how it can augment knowledge in augmented environments such as AR/VR, often today referred to as the ‘metaverse’.
Supplemental Material
- Vinton G. Cerf. 2021. The Future of Text Redux. Commun. ACM 64, 10 (2021), 5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3483539Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Frode Hegland. 2019. Visual-Meta: An Approach to Surfacing Metadata. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA Hof, Germany, 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3345509.3349281Google ScholarDigital Library
- Frode Hegland. 2020. Addressing the Skies of the Future of Text: A Call for Continuous Improvement in Infrastructures. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 127–129. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404779Google ScholarDigital Library
- Frode Hegland (Ed.). 2020. The Future of Text. Future Text Publishing, London, UK. https://doi.org/10.48197/fot2020aGoogle Scholar
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