ART-SHTA: A Tool for Sculptural Hypertext Authoring

The ART-SHTA (Sculptural HyperText Authoring) tool supports information and concept structuring for analytical and scholarly compositional tasks. ART-SHTA employs three hypertext techniques: sculptural hypertext, spatial hypertext, and hierarchy browsing. While the notion of sculptural hypertext was originally introduced to provide tools for hypertext narratives, our approach demonstrates that it also provides a powerful method for supporting analytical and scholarly authoring tasks; which we call sculptural hypertext authoring. Integrated with the interaction technique for spatial hypertext and the 3-column view for hierarchy browsing, the ART-SHTA system serves as a cognitive tool for a user in a more natural and unobtrusive manner.