Hypertext News
Humanities Honour Scheme
In the first Hypertext conference (HT87), it was highlighted that ``the Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider the form, role and impact of hypertext and hypermedia in a forum of discussion of ideas, design and use of hypertext and hypermedia in a variety of domains''. This shows that from the beginning the Hypertext conference was established as an interdisciplinary conference. I believe for better discussions and outcomes it is important to organise a conference in an international and interdisciplinary fashion. To me the former means bringing people together from different cultures and the latter means bringing people from different backgrounds and diverse disciplines. These are important features for cross-pollinating ideas; having different insights; sharing and transferring experiences; having applications in different domains; having better discussions and most importantly for producing better results. Hypertext conferences have always been among the few that have managed to be true interdisciplinary conferences. They have always brought together computer scientists, writers, sociologists, psychologists, designers, ethnographers, engineers and many others. That's why HT conferences have always been interesting and fun to attend.
In order to continue and strengthen this, this year we are introducing a new "Humanities Honour Scheme". With this scheme we would like to ensure that attendees from Humanities get as much discounts as Computer Scientists. Hence we would like to support and continue with the interdisciplinary aspect of the Hypertext conferences. We hope that this scheme will encourage researchers, artists and designers in Humanities to continue to contribute to the success of Hypertext research. This was demonstrated by the Web and hopefully Hypertext research will produce many more such successful examples. This year, as it was emphasised in HT01, HT07 ``will continue to provide a forum where attendees can exchange and discuss ideas on hypermedia, as well as its design and use in a variety of domains, while also considering the transformative power of hypermedia and its ability to potentially alter the way we read, write, argue, work, exchange information, or entertain ourselves''. See you all in Manchester!
Labels: HT07, Humanities, Hypertext 2007, Manchester, registration
posted by: Registration Chair on Monday, March 12, 2007