MUSLI: A hypermedia interface for dynamic, interactive, and symbolic communication

This article proposes a hypermedia interface for writing and reading documents that include dynamic, interactive, abstract objects. Highly active and interactive documents supersede the passive ones we usually find in hypermedia systems. Although the work has its background in visual communication and story telling, it lends itself to any kind of domain modelling, shorthand systems, process descriptions, or formal representations of multimedia aspects of knowledge. It is a framework for dynamic abstract languages, rather than a single language as such. We present one specific example of such an interface: MUSLI (MUltiSensory Language Interface) and show how it may be used for interactive story telling.