Hypertext 2004
Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
August 9-13, 2004 : Santa Cruz, California USA
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Call for Submissions
The Fifteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
will be held in Santa Cruz, California, August 9-13, 2004.
The ACM Hypertext Conference is the foremost international conference
on hypertext and hypermedia. It brings together scholars, researchers
and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines, united by a
shared interest in innovative textual and multimedia information
spaces - with emphasis on augmenting human capabilities via linking,
structure, authoring, annotation and interaction.
This year, in addition to the established conference themes, the
conference is actively soliciting submissions at the intersections
of hypermedia and Digital Libraries, Software Engineering and the
Humanities. We welcome submissions on the representation, design,
structuring, visualizing, navigating, and exploiting of the rich
network of relationships found in these domains.
Spatial hypertext (structuring information via visual cues and
geometric arrangement) and ubiquitous hypermedia (in situ authoring
and navigating relationships among real world objects) have recently
emerged as significant research directions. They join our established
themes of adaptive hypermedia, literary hypertext and systems and
structures. This latter topic knits together the research themes
of open hypermedia, structural computing, design and reflection.
In a bold experiment, for the first time we will be accepting
hypertext submissions of research results. We are keenly interested
in how judicious use of nonlinear narrative and rich linking can
enhance communication of research ideas. We encourage you to consider
submitting your paper as a hypertext. Please see the Web site for
further details about hypertext submission.
We will also be operating a rolling review process. Papers and
hypertexts received before the early submission deadline will receive
reviewers' feedback at least a week before the final submission
deadline, facilitating revised submissions where appropriate.
Key dates
Early submission deadline: February 4, 2004
Full papers & hypertexts: March 12, 2004
Workshop proposals: December 19, 2003
Short papers: May 28, 2004
Poster & demo abstracts: June 11, 2004
Program Themes
This year we have organised the call around a number of themes. We
welcome papers about all aspects of hypertext and hypermedia, even
if not closely fitting one of these themes.
Digital Libraries
Chair John Leggett, Texas A&M University
Vice Chair David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg
Information structuring plays a fundamental role in the broad range of
research areas encompassed by the digital library field. The diverse
collection of media that digital libraries contain, along with the
variety of ways in which users interact with those resources, require
flexible, dynamic, and adaptable structuring techniques. We seek
contributions that explore the ways in which the rich variety of
structuring facilities represented by hypermedia technology can be
used to address the challenging tasks faced in the digital libraries
field.
Software Engineering
Chair Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine
Vice Chair Ken Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Software projects produce a diverse set of highly interrelated
artifacts including requirements, architectures, designs, source code,
test cases, and build scripts. We are interested in research that
explicitly leverage these relationships through hypertext mechanisms
or capabilities, including but not limited to contributions in
Web-based open source software development, software development
environments, CASE tools, consistency checking, software configuration
management, build management, release management, literate
programming, intelligent editors, and documentation support systems.
Hypertext in the Humanities
Chair Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
Vice Chair Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore
Theoretical and applied work in areas like computational linguistics,
natural language processing, lexical semantics, cognitive psychology,
computer-mediated communication, and electronic publishing have
explored the advantages of coding, storing, and accessing lexical
and conceptual knowledge in multi-dimensional formats. We encourage
submissions in these and related areas that show how multi-dimensional
structure has been used to describe, represent, and explain different
types of information.
Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia
Chair mc schraefel, University of Southampton
Individuals are, well, individual. In many scenarios, one text, one
set of relationships, does not fit all readers. We seek contributions
in all areas of this research theme, encompassing systems,
methodologies, and user models for the adaptation, filtering and
personalization of relationship-rich information spaces. Additional
emphases include interaction design for adaptable or adaptive systems,
adaptive and intelligent learning environments, recommender systems,
reflective user models, and agent-based adaptation, as well as
rigorous evaluation of such systems.
Literary Hypertext
Chair Jim Rosenberg
Viewed broadly, hypertext permits a wide range of experimentation in
literary works on non-linearity, multiple authorial viewpoints, and
rhetorical structure, as well as radical entanglements of words and
meaning. Papers are welcomed on a variety of topics, of which only
a small sample might include: the nature of hypertextual time,
cybertext/algorithmic anatomy, hypertext narratology, hypertext
anti-narratology, the role of code in literary hypertext, hypertextual
close reading, literary interfaces, minimalist hypertext, maximalist
(sculptural) hypertext, and the nature of hypertextual genre.
Ubiquitous Hypermedia
Chair Kaj Gronbaek, Aarhus University
Rich networks of relationships exist among physical real-world objects
as well as between these objects and computerized documents. We seek
contributions that explore the interface between the physical and the
virtual, especially those emphasizing creation, visualization and
navigation of relationships, content delivery to mobile devices,
location tracking, authoring tools and methods for geospatial
relationships, and innovative uses of this technology for work, play,
and creative expression.
Spatial Hypertext
Chair Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University
The relative positioning of artifacts to create new relationships and
meaning has long been used by sculptors and visual artists. Spatial
hypertext builds on this tradition to assign meaning and structure to
units of text and media based on their visual similarity and relative
geometric and temporal placement in virtual information spaces. We are
interested in contributions that explore this novel information
structuring technique, including new systems, user interfaces and
metaphors, visualizations, methodologies, experience reports, and
spatial structuring techniques.
Systems and Structures
Chair Niels Olof Bouvin, Aarhus University
Now that the Web has entered a period of stabilization characterized
by increased maturity and incremental technical improvement, we seek
research on novel systems that expose possibilities far beyond the
Web as we know it. We solicit contributions on innovative systems,
methodologies, and taxonomies for representing and structuring
intellectual work and its inter-relationships. Users of systems can
range from individuals to collaborative teams, working free-form, or
in defined workflows. Dimensions of interest include novel user
interfaces, architectures, distribution, data models, infrastructure,
standards, openness, and, generally, capabilities for augmenting
creative intellectual activity.
Other topics
Papers about all aspects of hypertext and hypermedia are welcome,
whether or not they fit one or more of the above themes.
Submission categories
Hypertext 2004 is seeking full papers and hypertexts, short papers,
workshops, technical briefings, doctoral consortium contributions,
demonstrations, and posters. Please see the Web site for further
information.
Conference Committee
Program Co-Chairs
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK [log in to unmask]
Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham, UK [log in to unmask]
General Chair
Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, US [log in to unmask]
Hypertext Program Chair
Simon Buckingham Shum, Open University, UK [log in to unmask]
Workshops Chair
Manolis Tzagarakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greeece [log in to unmask]
Tutorials Chair
Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University, Canada [log in to unmask]
Posters & Demonstrations Chair
Jessica Rubart, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany [log in to unmask]
Panels & Technical Briefings Chair
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, US [log in to unmask]
Doctoral Consortium Chair
Leslie Carr, University of Southampton, UK [log in to unmask]
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