ABSTRACT

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot, The Rock (1934)

The book set itself the primary aim of examining and subsequently describing the reading process in a manner that would support sensible analysis of the potential role of information technology in this process. The framework outlined in Chapter 8 is intended to serve this purpose and in so doing, provide a means of raising awareness of human factors in information usage to designers of electronic text systems, the secondary aim of the book. This, the final chapter will review the work in the light of these aims and suggest areas for future research.