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Access to information in a newspaper
is much more intuitive and immediate than access to indentical
contents in most Web sites.
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Why reading a newspaper is often more efficient
than visiting a Web site
When opening a newspaper we first access
to a meta-knowledge. When quickly scanning pages before reading,
we pick up signals that allow for first identification of the
pieces of information we access.
We arbitrarily give subjects importance and hierarchy rankings.
We make this classification according to our centers of interest
but also according to the importance given by page setup. As a
matter of facts, each article is characterized by the volume of
its text, the number of pages, its position, its typographical
enhancement, possibly by images and editing tools such as frames,
eye-catching and references. These identification elements that
allow the readers to build their own representation, even before
really starting to read, constitute an access means to a meta-knowledge.
It is precisely this access level, before reading, that is most
often absent from the schematic of navigation Web sites. The RU3
project interfaces are essentially access interfaces to meta-knowledge.
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