Educational research: Which way now?

Which way now? Analysing and easing inadequacies in WWW navigation

This paper examines the usability of the hypertext navigation facilities provided byWorld Wide Web client applications. A notation is de ned to represent the user's navigational acts and the resultant system states. The notation is used to report potential, or `theoretical,' problems in the models of navigation supported by three web client applications. A usability study con rms that these pro...

Which Way Madness Lies

Anna did not simply decide one day that people were made of paper. She came to the conclusion slowly and reluctantly, several months after she ! rst noticed that the consistency of everything around her had subtly changed. Books and chairs and buildings were no longer solid but composed of tiny, buzzing particles. She thought if she blew on a lamppost it should disperse into air. On her way to ...

Which Way to Cooperate∗

We introduce a two-player, binary-choice game in which both players have a privately known incentive to enter, yet the combined surplus is highest if only one enters. Repetition of this game admits two distinct ways to cooperate: turn taking and cutoffs, which rely on the player’s private value to entry. A series of experiments highlights the role of private information in determining which mod...

Which Way from Here

Which Way is Up ?

Most of us know that without a simplifying metaphor we can only wrap our mind around a limited amount of complexity. Most of us also know that the amount of complexity in today's world and the accelerating pace of change deprive most metaphors of any recognizable utility. Thus, when it comes to understanding what today's era implies for humanity over the next century, it is fair to ask – "which...