Richard Kopak received his B.A. in Political Science at the University of Alberta, and his Master's in Library Science, and Ph.D. in Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He recently joined the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC as Assistant Professor.
Interaction is determined largely by the functionality and representation offered at the interface.
It is important, therefore, to discover what functionality is most useful to individuals within a specific context. It is also important to determine how the information and attendant functionality is best represented within these contexts, where underlying issues of information design and architecture are paramount. My dissertation research was based on the assumption that link typing in hypertext would add value to the interaction with the information in a hypertext. A taxonomy of link types was developed with the participation of users of hypertext. The purpose of the taxonomy is to provide a consistent, realized set of link types that represent a reasonably comprehensive set of basic informational relations.