JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 8(10): 881-891, doi: 10.3217/jucs-008-10-0881
Design for All as a Challenge for Hypermedia Engineering
expand article infoVolker Mattick‡
‡ Chair of Programming Systems and Compiler Construction, FuLDIT Research Group, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Corresponding author: Volker Mattick ( mattick@ls5.cs.uni-dortmund.de )

© Volker Mattick.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Mattick V (2002) Design for All as a Challenge for Hypermedia Engineering. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 8(10): 881-891. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-008-10-0881
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Abstract
Design for All is an important challenge for hypermedia engineering. We analyze this challenge and show that it is necessary to find a way of describing partially designed hypermedia documents that can then be transformed into different hypermedia applications according to user needs and call this concept "semi-documents". We sketch similarities and differences to existing formalisms and conclude that there are three areas in which functional languages can make a contribution: the development of an embedded special-purpose language for describing semi-documents, the building of generators which produce hypermedia applications from semi-document, and the realization of support tools for the development of semi-documents.
Keywords
hypermedia engineering, functional programming, design techniques