VKB has a history mechanism that records the evolution, local, global, and historical links for explicit navigational connections between chunks of information.  

VKB History Mechanism

VKB retains the ability to visually mark objects with background color and border width. Borders can be assigned a different color than background color.  Objects can also have transparency allowing objects to overlap but still be visible.  

Background and Border Colors in VKB

VKB provides a slate of 12 modifiable color pallets that are stored for each space and easy to edit. In other systems, such as VIKI, the color pallets were for per user not per task and cumbersome to edit. 

VKB Color Pallets

JPEG and GIF image files are recognized and are able to be displayed at their full size or as thumbnails.  As objects they can have borders and backgrounds, or be used as backgrounds thus adding another color option.  This would allow objects to be organized by a common theme.  

Image use in VKB 

Files can be dragged and dropped into VKB allowing documents or images to be easily loaded.  They can be dragged into an existing object, or a new object will be created if there is not one already where the file is dragged. URLS can also be dragged into VKB. Though URLS will open a browser window when selected. 

Information Integration in VKB

- History Mechanism
- Background and Border Colors
- Color Pallets
- Images 
- Information Integration

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Is a spatial hypertext system that includes the ease of earlier spatial hypertext systems, such as VIKI,  but adds greater support for long-term collaboration and tasks requiring explicit links. 


Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB)

Shipman, F. M., Hsieh, H., Maloor, P., &amp; Moore, J. M. (2001). The visual knowledge builder. Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia  - HYPERTEXT '01. https://doi.org/10.1145/504216.504245 


The Visual Knowledge Builder:
A Second Generation Spatial Hypertext
 

VKB Interface 

Features of VKB

- Note taking
- Project Management
- Conference Organizing
- Writing
- Collaborative work
- Organizational activities

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