SCENE PLANE——A VISUAL MODEL FOR HYPERTEXT BROWSING

After analyzing how people thinks when he navigates in information space,we have designed a visual model for hypertext browsing——Scene Plane which is based on the people′s natural spatial and geographic ways for thinking.On the Scene Plane,every object occupies a definite region and the model provides some“cameras”which enable people to arrange the objects“at hands”as the viewing field changes when he navigates on the Plane.The model combines the ways of thinking and visual memory efficiently which makes the thinking continuity.It supports such applications as information browsing and on line collaboration.This paper describes it′s metaphor,data structure and our future projects.