A Hypermedia Environment for Geometric Design Education. The aim of this paper is to present the initial results of research into the application of a hypermedia environment in the area of geometric design education. Several concepts have been identified for this environment and an architecture for this approach has been devised. In this architecture, the presentation of the subject material is structured linearly but enough flexibility is available to accommodate for free navigation. Hypertext is used to control quantity and quality of the presented material per frame and to allow free browsing.
Multimedia is adopted to develop visualisation and to increase motivation.
Two experiments have been conducted to illustrate the research ideas. In these experiments, the area of dimensioning from geometric design was chosen to illustrate the initial concepts, various hypermedia elements being utilised.