[Sigia-l] IA and Prototype Theory

[Victor Lombardi]

Some of Dillon's other publications[1] do tie his idea
of information shape to schemata. If my memory serves
me well, he says

1. Users perceive 'global' schemata (e.g. generally
how a site works) and 'local' schemata (e.g. how this
particular instance works)

2. The structure and content of a genre - the shape -
is a global schemata. It helps users predict ordering
and grouping of elements and where a typical element
appears in the structure

I presented a bit about Dillon's ideas of shape
recently[2].

Victor

[1]<http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/pubs.html>
[2]<http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/ia/iasummit2004/NavigationResearch.pdf>

peterme wrote:
> From "Writing as Design: Hypermedia and the Shape of
Information Space",
> by Andrew Dillon:
><URL:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/publications/bromme.pdf
>
>...Genres
>establish context for a reader with the result that
anticipatory processes
>prime the reader, enabling faster comprehension. Over
lengthy documents
>the genre can serve as a form of schematic
representation or scaffold for
>long-term memory.

then sarah wrote:
Aah...so this is like schemas in cognitive psychology!
I have never heard
the term "genre" used in this way before, but it makes
sense.


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Victor Lombardi
http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/

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