Augmenting Intellectual Freedom of Movement through Richly Interactive Text and Citations

知识是流动的，有多种相互联系，而一个论点，如博士论文，是刚性和线性的，尽管有与流动联系的知识空间的联系支持。研究的问题是，一个丰富的超文本环境如何增强作者进行文献综述的能力，支持外部工作的认知内化以实现清晰度，以及如何以线性形式进一步交流，与流动的知识空间相连，并赋予其可信度？该项目考察：要求学生记录他们对丰富相互关联的研究文献的理解；学生如何使用当前一代的知识工具实现这一结果；以及学生/考官在形成和交流这种理解时遇到的任何困难和弱点——什么超文本功能可以更好地支持相互关联的知识的呈现和互动，与线性论证相联系，以及不同的观点如何在两者之间轻松切换的同时服务于两者。这项工作的前提是，在链接的专制（Halasz, 1991）和按钮的专制(Hall，在节点的无政府状态（Marshall & Rogers, 1992）之前，存在着丰富的精神自由来增强人类思想的机会（Engelbart, 1962）。这项研究让我采用了一种我称之为“视觉元”的方法，在这种方法中，作者手稿的大部分丰富内容都编码在导出的PDF文档中，作为PDF末尾扩展的BibTex参考文献。这个可视化元数据包含下一个读者引用文档所需的所有信息，以及文档结构的描述，以便读者软件能够呈现交互式大纲，支持主动重建任何动态视图，描述如何读取/解析图表以及文档中引用的访问等等。我已经构建了一个macOS文字处理器，用于自动添加可视化元数据，名为“Author”，以及一个名为“reader”的PDF阅读器，用于解释它。这是为了测试系统的实用性和有用性，这是下一阶段的研究。

Knowledge is fluid with a multiplicity of interconnections-whereas an argument, such as a PhD thesis-is rigid and linear, though supported by connections to the fluidly connected knowledge space. The research question is how can a richly hypertextual environment augment the author's ability to perform literature reviews, support cognitive internalising of the external work to achieve clarity and how can this be further communicated in a linear form, connected to, and given credibility from, the fluid knowledge space?This project examines:the requirement on students to document their understanding of a richly interconnected research literaturehow students achieve this outcome using the current generation of knowledge tools; and any difficulties and weaknesses that students / examiners experience in forming and communicating this understandingwhat hypertextual functionality could better support the presentation and interaction of interconnected knowledge, connected to a linear argument and how different views can service both while easily toggling between themThe premise of the work is that in the space between the tyranny of the link (Halasz, 1991) and the tyranny of the button (Hall, 1994) before the anarchy of the node (Marshall & Rogers, 1992) lies an opportunity for rich mental freedom to augment human thought (Engelbart, 1962).The approach the research has led me to is with what I have named 'visual-meta' where much of the richness of the author's manuscript is encoded in the exported PDF document as an expanded BibTex reference at the end of the PDF. This visual-meta contains all the information the next reader would need to cite the document, as well as descriptions of the the document structure in order for the reader software to be able to present an interactive outline, support for actively re-building any dynamic view, descriptions of how to read/parse diagrams and in-document access to citations and more. I have built a macOS word processor for authoring with visual-meta automatically appended, called 'Author', and a PDF reader called 'Reader' which interprets it. This is in order to test the practicality and usefulness of the system, which is the next stage of the research.