This proceedings volume, based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, presents two perspectives on hypermedia. One is pragmatic and concerned with improving existing hypermedia products. The other is more ambitious and aims to study the hypermedia-aided learning process for more effective exploitation in future.

Inhalt
1 Hypermedia for Learning.- Hypermedia and multimedia.- The acquisition and representation of domain specific knowledge using NoteCards.- Tools for monitoring and analysing the use of hypermedia courseware.- Hypermedia and pre-service teacher education: some possibilities in analogy with didactics.- Design considerations in hypermedia tutorials.- Hyperconstruction: a new way to develop, to teach, and to learn.- Hypermedia and science education the case of chemistry.- Designing hypermedia for computer assisted career guidance.- Knowledge acquisition with texts by means of flexible computer-assisted information access.- 2 Hypermedia Language.- Learning through browsing: observations on the production of self-directed learning systems for language students.- Towards a hypertext semiotics.- Signal effects on the recall and understanding of expository texts in expert and novice readers.- Hypertext processing: can we forget textual psycholinguistics?.- Cognitive ergonomics in a language learning task.- 3 Help Tools for Hypermedia and AI in Hypermedia.- Hypermedia for learning cognitive instructional design.- Hypermedia: influence of interactive freedom degree in learning processes.- HyperCard as a psychological research tool experimental studies.- Effects of prior knowledge on learning to use a command device.- Ergonomics for hypermedia courseware.- Adding intelligence to hypertext with expert systems and adding usability to expert systems with hypertext.- Integrating hypermedia into intelligent tutoring.- 4 Ergonomics for Hypermedia.- Hypermedia and ITS.- Intelligent systems in education.- Potential contribution of new hypermedia technologies for man-machine communication in industrial processes.- Index of Authors.