REGARDING           Another question... hypertextual naviation


Dear PPIG'ers,

Yet another of my questions about research papers!  I hope you don't mind!

In attempting to make sence of some results I have collected relating
to some software maintenance experiments, I have been looking at some
psychology research papers relating to cognitive reference points,
cognitive maps and some more general stuff about spatial reasoning.
This is all connected to how a programmer may proceed to find his or
her way throughout a significant software system - to what degree does
spatial knowledge play in the comprehension activity where hundreds and
thousands lines of code are used?

I would like to find a few papers from the area of hypertextual naviation
- which is loosly related to this (i.e., if a code browser is created
which uses hyperlinks to particular sections of code - what are the
effects on the programmer?).  Can anybody point me towards a book or a
paper which is related to this area?

Many thanks to all!

Chris Douce
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Software Management Group
UMIST, Manchester, UK.

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