TY - JOUR T1 - Examining usability for a training-oriented hypertext: Can hyper-activity be good? JF - Electronic Publishing Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jones,T. A1 - Shneiderman, Ben AB - We describe the design and evaluation of a hypertext-based tutorial for hypertext authors. This85-article tutorial represents an innovative application of hypertext to procedural learning. The work has been influenced by Carroll’s minimalist model, and by the syntactic/semantic semantic model of user behavior. The usability study involved eight subjects who studied the Hyperties Author Tutorial (HAT) for approximately one hour and then performed a set of authoring tasks in an average of 21 minutes. All users successfully completed the tasks. As a result of the study, we provide a characterization of appropriate uses of hypertext for training, and describe the meaning of a hyper-active environment. VL - 3 CP - 4 ER -