An experiment on node size in a hypermedia system

Su Hee Kim and Caroline M. Eastman

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999, vol. 50, issue 6, 530-536

Abstract: The node size that should be used in a hypermedia system is an important design issue. Three interpretations of node size are identified: storage (physical size), window size (presentation size), and length (logical size). An experiment in which presentation size and text length are varied in a HyperCard application is described. The experiment involves student subjects performing a fact retrieval task from a reference handbook. No interaction is found between these two independent variables. Performance is significantly better for the longer texts, but no significant difference is found for the two different window sizes.

Date: 1999
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