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Online Documentation for Engineering Software: A Hypertext Application
Author(s) -
Malarsi S.,
OlabeBasogain J. C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8667.1991.tb00400.x
Subject(s) - hypertext , computer science , documentation , session (web analytics) , software , world wide web , process (computing) , hypermedia , strengths and weaknesses , multimedia , software engineering , human–computer interaction , programming language , philosophy , epistemology
This article describes the use of ‘hypertext’ as a means to document engineering software online. An extensive hypertext document can be built with relative ease using an authoring tool. Hypertext documents enhance the learning process through the association of facts. The user has the freedom to arrange his/her own study sequence in a particular session. The article provides a brief introduction to the hypertext technology and authoring tools, and describes a Mohr's Circle program, which has been developed to explore the use of hypertext for online users' manuals. The strengths and weaknesses of the software tool, KnowledgePro, as well as the development techniques, are discussed.