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Practical Hypertext

The Practical Hypertext Autonomous Programme covers a range of topics that have been popular in the Hypertext conferences in the past, and we anticipate it being well-subscribed again this year. According to our records, there has already been a lot of activity in the viewing of our programme's web pages and we have even had our first submission, a full six weeks early!

We have collected an excellent programme committee whose expertise will help us choose the best and most interesting papers for the Practical Hypertext Programme. Some are already well-known to Hypertext conference past attendees, while others are new to the conference series and bring us their expertise in adjacent areas such as adaptive hypermedia and information retrieval. This reflects the contributions of other related areas to hypertext research, but also the way hypertext research contributes to other areas - such as how links are used in page ranking on the Web, for example.

For the Practical Hypertext Programme, we're looking for papers that may be about creating or maintaining everyday hypertext, or how practical hypertext improves other work or leisure pursuits. As long as your paper broadly covers this, then we are interested in receiving it for review!

Labels: autonomous programme, Hypertext 2007, practical hypertext, submissions

posted by: Practical Hypertext Chair on Thursday, April 12, 2007

Call For Participation

Hypertext 2007 celebrates its 20th anniversary trying to fight the last years' flux and overshadowing by Web. Trying to keep Hypertext's identity as an interesting and interdisciplinary conference, we offer more than 40 different research areas ranging from Web Design to Literature and Philosophy. I agree with the Registration Chair's comments about how important is to bring people from different disciplines in order to produce more dynamically diverse discussions and hence better results. As a Publicity Chair, I have to let the world know about the conference but also inform them about the diverse range that Hypertext 2007 tries to cover. Five distinctive programs will be offered to show how unique this conference is. We are seeking participants focusing, but not limited to:

Scholarly, Structural, Dynamic and Adaptive Models and Theory of hypertext.
Applications of hypertext including The Web, Semantic Web, Web Engineering, and Web Design.
The effect of hypertext on Developing Regions, Social Tagging and Annotation, Blogs, and eLearning.
Human Centred hypertext including Browsers and Interfaces, Web Accessibility, Usability, Evaluation and Observational Studies.
Culture and Communication, Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the hypertext tools to support them.

In addition, we provide the opportunity to participants to submit:

Hypertexts in order for others within the community to read and interact with them through the Hypertext Reading Room
Posters and Demonstrations to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work.
For the Student Research Competition, so that students can participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research by displaying a poster and making a brief presentation to a panel of judges and
For a community discussion forum where people with similar interests can flock together and discuss their research.

Looking through the list of subjects covered one can easily notice that not only this conference is of interest to people from Computer Science background but also from Engineering, Humanities, HCI, Arts, Literature, even Philosophy! So, in this post I am calling you to participate in an interdisciplinary, diverse and exciting conference but also seeking your help:

Do let me know of any community mailing list or discussion groups that are relevant to hypertext! and
Let your colleagues know about HT07 and ask them to pass the information.

The more participants the better understanding we will get about hypertext and its applications. I am looking forward to hear from you!

Labels: Arts, call for papers, HCI, HT07, humanities, Hypertext 2007, interdisciplinary conference

posted by: Publicity Chair on Monday, April 02, 2007