Hypertext literature is ready for a new tool and it’s name is Literatrónica. This bilingual system, developed by Columbian mathematician and author Juan B. Gutiérrez, is here to change the way authors think about hypertext by providing an online application that answers several of the major problems with hypertext, namely, the problems of:
readers knowing how much of a text has been read
readers encountering repeated lexias without artistic effect
readers getting lost and not finding their way through the text
writers struggling to maintain large systems of static links
What Literatronic is:
Literatronic is a dynamic hypertext authoring system which instead of relying solely on static hypertext links (for the system allows these as well), uses an AI engine to recommend the 3 best next lexias based on what you have already read.
How it works:
Authors input their lexias into the web interface.
Authors decide which lexias should be linked with each other
Authors assign a numeric “distance” between connected lexias. A passage which follows easily, or without much interpretive work might be a 5 while a passage that is distantly related might be a 25.
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