2. Design methods for hypermedia documents

This section outlines a method for designing hypermedia documents.

A hypermedia document is seen here as the enhancement of a set of available information by reorganizing its structure to adapt it to an identified reading task, targeted at a given set of readers, and respecting the cognitive constraints that govern the exchange of information between a document and a human being.

The guideline of this method leads to :

• characterize the data to be enhanced ;

• characterize the reading task for which they are intended;

• deduce a navigation model adapted to this task and respecting the related cognitive constraints;

• build a model for presenting and interacting with information.