Publications in Journals

  • Getting from here to there: Travel Planner User Interface for Paris and London

    Z miejsca na miejsce Internetowe strony komunikacji miejskiej Paryza i Londynu. Getting from here to there: Travel Planner User Interface for Paris and London

    by Paul Kahn. 2+3D No. 18 (I - 2006).

    Some user interface designs for presenting complex urban transport networks on the web.

  • La cartographie pour l'audit des Intranets

    La cartographie pour l'audit des Intranets

    by Laurent Kling. Archimag , no. 184, May 2005

  • Value of Connections

    Wartość połąlczeń. The Value of Connections

    by Paul Kahn 2+3D No. 14 (I-2005).

    Sometimes it is amazing what you can find on the Public Web. I was recently preparing for a lecture and decided to look for information about Adolf Loos ...

  • Architektura www

    Architektura www. WWW Architecture

    by Paul Kahn, 2+3D No. 12 (III-2004).

    A survey of website architecture.

  • Applications of isometric projection for visualizing web sites

    Applications of isometric projection for visualizing web sites

    by Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk, and Piotr Kaczmarek, Information Design Journal, Vol. 1 No. 3 2002.

    A detailed explanation of how isometric diagrams can be used for describing web sites.

  • Principles of Typography for User Interface Design

    Principles of Typography for User Interface Design

    by Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk, Interactions, Vol. 5, No. 6, November, 1998.

    A review of typographic principles that apply to user interface design.

  • MAPA: a system for inducing and visualizing hierarchy in websites

    MAPA: a system for inducing and visualizing hierarchy in websites

    by David Durand and Paul Kahn, from the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'98); June, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA.

    The MAPA system provides improved navigation facility for large web sites. It extracts a hierarchical structure from an arbitrary web site, with some minimal user assistance, and creates an interactive map of that site that can be used for orientation and navigation....

  • Pushing Reuse in Hypermedia Design: Golden Rules, Design Patterns and Constructive Templates

    Pushing Reuse in Hypermedia Design: Golden Rules, Design Patterns and Constructive Templates

    by Marc Nanard, Jocelyne Nanard, and Paul Kahn, from the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'98); June, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Reuse is increasingly strategic for reducing cost and improving quality of hypermedia design and development. In this paper, based on the design and development of a real hypermedia application, we classify and explore different types of reuse in hypermedia design....

  • Real Space and Cyberspace, a comparison of museum maps and electronic publication maps

    Real Space and Cyberspace, a comparison of museum maps and electronic publication maps

    by Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk, and Magdalena Kasman, from the Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM'97; September 1997, Paris, France.

    This paper discusses models for creating maps to guide visitors through museum spaces, both real and electronic.

  • Local and Global Hypermedia Design in the Encyclopædia Africana

    Local and Global Hypermedia Design in the Encyclopædia Africana

    by Paul Kahn, in Hypermedia Design, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hypermedia Design (IWHD'95), Montpellier, France, June 1-2, 1995, S. Fraisse, F. Garzotto, T. Isakowitz, J. Nanard and M. Nanard, eds., Springer Verlag in collaboration with the British Computer Society, 1996.

    A discussion of the new possibilities that hypermedia offers to authors and readers, drawing examples from the Encyclopedia Africana prototype.

  • www.DynamicDiagrams.com

    http://www.DynamicDiagrams.com

    by Paul Kahn, a paper presented at the American Center for Design Third Annual Living Surfaces Conference, "Design for the Internet," Chicago, October 28, 1995. Published in Statements:1996, Vol. 11, No. 1, American Center for Design.

    A presentation of the structure and design of the first Dynamic Diagrams web site in 1995, the Year the Web Went Wild.

  • Visual Cues for Local and Global Coherence in the WWW

    Visual Cues for Local and Global Coherence in the WWW

    by Paul Kahn, in Communications of the ACM, August 1995.

    How visual cues are used in the design behind the Interleaf web site.

  • Three Fundamental Elements of Visual Rhetoric in Hypertext

    Three Fundamental Elements of Visual Rhetoric in Hypertext

    by Paul Kahn, Ronnie Peters and George P. Landow, in Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, W. Schuler, J. Hannemann, & N. Streitz, eds., Springer Verlag, 1995.

    A demonstration of different visual methods for marking links in text.

  • Typography for the Computer Screen

    Typography for the Computer Screen: Applying the Lessons of Print to Electronic Documents

    by Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk, The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing

    A discussion of how type works and does not work on the computer screen.

  • To Show and Explain

    To Show and Explain: The Information Graphics of Stevin and Comenius

    by Krzysztof Lenk and Paul Kahn, Visible Language 26:3/4, January, 1993.

    The innovative information graphics from the 17th century by Simon Stevin and Johannus Comenius.

  • Where's the Hypertext?

    Where's the Hypertext? The Dickens Web as a System-Independent Hypertext

    by George P. Landow and Paul Kahn, Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Hypertext (ECHT'92), Milan, Italy, November 1992.

    How The Dickens Web, a hypertext originally developed with Intermedia, was ported to other hypertext systems.

  • IRIS Hypermedia Services

    IRIS Hypermedia Services

    by Bernard J. Haan, Paul Kahn, Victor A. Riley, Norman K. Meyrowitz, and James H. Coombs, Communications of the ACM, 35(1), January 1992:36-51.

    The paper describing in the final software architecture of the Intermedia system, a pioneering hypertext system developed at Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), Brown University between 1985-1990.

  • Design of Hypermedia Publications

    Design of Hypermedia Publications: Issues and Solutions

    by Paul Kahn, Julie Launhardt, Krzysztof Lenk, and Ronnie Peters, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation, and Typography (EP'90), Gaithersburg, MD, September 18-20, 1990, Cambridge University Press, 1990: 107-124.

    The first paper describing hypertext visual design issues, based on Exploring The Moon developed in Intermedia.