18.017 Hypertext '04

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         Subject: Hypertext '04: Short Paper and poster submissions due 28 May

Hypertext 2004

             Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
                August 9-13, 2004 : Santa Cruz, California USA
                             http://www.ht04.org/

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.

Key dates

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 Sofia Stamou, University of Patras
Vice Chair Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University

    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.