W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?
A historical survey tracing Spatial Hypertext from its 1980s pre-Web roots through the AQUANET, VIKI, and VKB research programs and convergent tools like Storyspace and Tinderbox, assessing why active SH research has declined and arguing for its continued relevance in sense-making, AI, and XR contex
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W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?
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Mark W. R. Anderson
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A historical survey tracing Spatial Hypertext from its 1980s pre-Web roots through the AQUANET, VIKI, and VKB research programs and convergent tools like Storyspace and Tinderbox, assessing why active SH research has declined and arguing for its continued relevance in sense-making, AI, and XR contex
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AI, AQUANET, Notecards, Storyspace, Tinderbox, VIKI, VKB, XR, hypertext, information triage, knowledge management, premature formalisation, sense making, spatial hypertext
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2025-09-15
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HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA, September 15-19, 2025
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