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Hyperstructure: Computers built around things you care about |
Hyperstructure: Computers built around things that you care about |
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Abstract |
Abstract |
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The Next Big Thing, in our opinion, is hyperstructure, |
Computers need to help us **organizing our lives**, rather |
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a term we use to *denote* a storage model that allows |
than making them more difficult. The "next big thing" |
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different data structures to overlap, but to *connote* |
will be a system that allows us to **structure information |
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being used as the basis of an item-based hypermedia system |
around items, things that we care about**, such as people, arguments |
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with fluidly interacting *applitudes*. |
and ideas, rather than directories and files, and helps |
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us to understand how these items are related. |
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We present the fundamental principles of hyperstructure, |
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discuss the different proposed implementations (zzStructure |
We present a design for a computing environment |
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and RDF -based) and our own implementation, Fenfire, |
built around this notion, using a *hyperstructure*, |
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with several user interface innovations. |
a user-visible data structure for relating items |
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We also relate the concepts of hyperstructure to the hypertext |
to each other in different contexts. |
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literature. |
We also discuss Fenfire, our implementation-in-progress, |
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which XXX{buoys and buoy+loom UI}. |
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The item we are currently looking at |
The item we are currently looking at |
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is shown in the middle, items related to it are shown |
is shown in the middle, items related to it are shown |
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around it (see [#fig1note]_). Items further away |
around it [#fig1note]_. Items further away |
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fade into the background. Clicking |
fade into the background. Clicking |
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on a far-away item will bring it to the center. |
on a far-away item will bring it to the center. |
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