Back to the information city
Back to the information city
In his 1994 doctoral dissertation, Andreas Dieberger proposed to visualize hypertexts as cityscapes. Revisiting this concept with the aid of modern processors and displays, we have found that the Information City provides a new perspective on hypertext visualization itself, a practice inspired both by structuralist and by existentialist thought. Where conventional spatial hypertext has tended to focus on proximity, the Information City often foregrounds the implicit semantics of the spaces between buildings.
VR, information city, information recall, knowledge discovery, memory palaces, sensemaking, spatial hypertext, visualisation
118–126
Bernstein, Mark
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Silas, Hooper
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Anderson, Mark
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15 September 2025
Bernstein, Mark
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Silas, Hooper
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Anderson, Mark
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Bernstein, Mark, Silas, Hooper and Anderson, Mark
(2025)
Back to the information city.
Zheng, Yong, Boratto, Ludovico, Hargood, Charlie and Lee, Dongwon
(eds.)
In ACM HT 2025 - Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
ACM Press.
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(doi:10.1145/3720553.3746664).
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In his 1994 doctoral dissertation, Andreas Dieberger proposed to visualize hypertexts as cityscapes. Revisiting this concept with the aid of modern processors and displays, we have found that the Information City provides a new perspective on hypertext visualization itself, a practice inspired both by structuralist and by existentialist thought. Where conventional spatial hypertext has tended to focus on proximity, the Information City often foregrounds the implicit semantics of the spaces between buildings.
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VR, information city, information recall, knowledge discovery, memory palaces, sensemaking, spatial hypertext, visualisation
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Mark Bernstein
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Hooper Silas
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Mark Anderson
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Yong Zheng
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Ludovico Boratto
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Charlie Hargood
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Dongwon Lee
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