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What is Hypermedia

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A logical extension of the term hypertext in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks intertwine to create a generally non-linear medium of information.
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E-Textbooks as a Classroom Tool
Jackie HeeYoung Kim (Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch222
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Hypermedia Modules for Distance Education and Beyond
It is an extension to hypertext that supports linking graphics, sound, and video elements in addition to text elements.
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Adaptive Hypermedia in Education
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Audiovisual Hypermedia in the Semantic Web
Combination of the linking mechanisms of hypertext and the multimodal presentation of information that is inherent in multimedia.
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A Historical Perspective of Web Engineering
An extension of the term hypertext, in which text, audio, video, and other media intertwine to create a non-linear presentation of information.
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Hypermedia and its Role in Learning
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Examining the Effectiveness of Hyperaudio Learning Environments
The non-linear arrangement of visually presented information such as text, images, or movies, allowing users to navigate freely by using hyperlinks.
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New Roles of Digital Libraries
An extension to hypertext that links multimedia elements in addition to text elements.
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Telemedicine and Information Technology for Disaster Medical Scenarios
Information types such as multimedia (combination and integration of text, image, video, and audio).
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Semantically Enhanced Authoring of Shared Media
Combination of the linking mechanisms of hypertext and the multimodal presentation of information that is inherent in multimedia.
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Hypervideo
Generalization of the term hypertext where not only text but media of different type can be linked into a hyper structure.
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Cognitive Load and Disorientation Issues in Hypermedia as Assistive Technology
Hypermedia is a combination of networks of nodes, including information (e.g., text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), for the purpose of facilitating access to, and manipulation of, the information encapsulated by the data.
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Using Advanced Approaches in Urban Design Researches: A Mutation from 3D Digital Models to Virtual Reality
Hypermedia, or multimedia, is a new computerized environment that integrates multiple “media” or tools on a stand-alone PC.
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Memory, Cognition, and Multimedia: Role of the Importance of Organizing Knowledge in Memory with Hypermedia Help and Online Co-Understanding Systems
Hypermedia and multimedia is a medium in which the information is not only text type, but also picture, sound and video type. This is an extension of hypertext to multimedia data.
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New Technology for Empowering Virtual Communities
Refers to a computer environment in which multiple linkages enable users to navigate from one segment of audio, video, graphic, or textual data to another, related segment of data.
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New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels
An interactive digital or electronic text that includes hyperlinks to other digital or electronic media such as print, videos, image files, and sound files.
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Semantic Web and Adaptivity: Towards a New Model
Is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text, it can include graphics, video and sound.
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Customizing Multimedia with Multi-Trees
Hypertexts enriched with multimedia objects (such as audio, video, flash plug-in, etc.) to create a generally non-linear medium of information.
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Critical Literacy and Technology: An Essential Intersection for Our Nation's Schools
Various kinds of multimedia linked together. A blended word that combines hypertext with multimedia.
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Separation of Concerns in Mobile Hypermedia: Architectural and Modeling Issues
Hypermedia is a paradigm for organizing and accessing to information by organizing it in a network, in which nodes contain multimedia data and are connected with links. The user traverses the information space by navigating from node to node using links.
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Challenges in Developing Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems
Electronic content which includes links to many different mediums of content, such as: text; tables; figures; graphics; images; audio; video; animations; simulations; interactive games.
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Digital Film-Making Response to a Hate Crime: Narratives of Immigrant Youth
A system with various forms of interactive information such as text, graphics, video, audio, and data all linked together via hyperlinks.
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The Aesthetics of Net dot Art
An extension that supports linking graphics, sound and video files in addition to text elements. The web is partially a hypermedia system since it supports graphical hyperlinks and links to sound and video files.
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Mobile Learning: Content Format and Packaging for Effective Teaching and Learning in a Learner-Centered Pedagogy
A technique of linking a media with its storage location through pointers. A good example is links created on a web page such that when one clicks on the hyperlinks the action that follows is opening of another web page. One can link information which includes graphics, audio, video, plain text. It enables interactivity between user and media.
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Second Language Reading in Hypertext Environments
An extension of the term hypertext that includes the use of graphics, audio and video in addition to textual information.
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Interactive Multimedia Technologies for Distance Education Systems
Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs, and computer graphics related to a particular subject.
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