People navigating places

Visitors move through a setting, notice possessions, follow references, use material, ask people, contribute accounts. The browser analogy describes these operations while drawing attention to their physical conditions. A room provides access through routes and social activity as well as labels or search.

A visitor follows a book annotation to a photograph, asks about the camera, later accepts an invitation to meet its custodian. Each reference can lead to information or an action in another place. Weight, distance, care, timing, other people's activity affect the route.

Addresses and physical activity explain the institutional support. Read-write reality develops interpretation and alteration of the setting. The analogy remains useful when the author specifies the actual material operation rather than equating a person with software.