The Role of Genre in Shaping our Understanding of Digital Documents Misha Walker Vaughan milwalke@indiana.edu Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana and Andrew Dillon adillon@indiana.edu Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Paper prepared for the American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting , Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1998. This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Vaughan, M. and Dillon, A. (1998) The role of genre in shaping our understanding of digital documents. Proc. 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Medford NJ: Information Today Inc., 559-566. TITLE OF PAPER: The role of genre in shaping our understanding of digital documents INDEX TERMS: human-computer interaction, genre, navigation, information shape, digital documents, hypermedia AUTHOR NAME(1): Misha Walker Vaughan AFFILIATION: Indiana University CITY: Bloomington STATE/PROVINCE (or country if not U.S. or Canada): Indiana TELEPHONE: (812) 337-1719 FAX: (812) 337-1719 EMAIL: milwalke@indiana.edu AUTHOR NAME(2): Andrew Dillon AFFILIATION: Indiana University CITY: Bloomington STATE/PROVINCE (or country if not U.S. or Canada): Indiana