Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing

Assembles perspectives on the discourse of electronic texts from cognitive psychology, computer science, and cognitive ergonomics, emphasizing the interface characteristics and design for linear and non-linear texts as used in e-mail, electronic journal browsers, word processors that combine reading and writing, and hypertext systems. The goal is to demonstrate how the insights of the fields can be used in the others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.