Hypertext Conference 2008

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Important Dates and Proceedings Info

  • March 22, 2008 - Submission deadline
  • April 1, 2008 - Authors Notified
  • April 15, 2008 - Final versions due to workshop organizers
  • June 19, 2008 - Workshops

For guidance on submissions, please see the individual workshop descriptions below or contact the individual workshop organizers.

Workshop proceedings will appear on the Hypertext '08 Proceedings CD and will be made available in the ACM digital library.

The following Workshops have been accepted for presentation at Hypertext 2008. 

  • Making Hypermedia Live: Shaping Participatory Hypermedia
    Albert M. Selvin and Simon Buckingham Shum (Knowledge Media Institute, UK)

    In this workshop, we look at the connections between participatory media and hypermedia, with an emphasis on the special case of creating and shaping a hypermedia artifact in real-time, live group sessions. This workshop will collect and share experiences, frameworks, and technologies centered on the phenomenon of synchronous participatory hypermedia construction.  The workshop will also include a hands-on exercise involving all participants in planning and conducting a participatory hypermedia authoring session.

  • Web Science: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
    Weigang Wang (University of Manchester, UK) and David Millard (University of Southampton, UK)

    Web Science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that lies at the boundary of Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, Media, Economics and Law. Its aim is to understand the Web and its impact on the way people think, behave and interact. This workshop is for people who believe that their work could be part of this new discipline and who are interested in helping to define Web Science. We invite position papers on a variety of technical topics with a human slant, including Social Collaboration, Knowledge Interfaces, Collective Intelligence and Emergent Structures.

  • Creating out of the Machine: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web Artists Explore the Craft
    Stephen Ersinghaus (Tunxis Community College, Connecticut, USA)

    People often wonder about the process behind the creation of exciting and complex works of digital narrative.  They may wonder about and want to engage the tools themselves.   This workshop is about how artists create, what decisions they make, and how ideas are realized and problems are solved.  It invites people actively engaged in the production of digital narrative to discuss their tools, methods, and decisions as they work through the creative process.  This workshop is targeted to students of digital narrative, artists seeking more involvement either with existing or emergent tools, educators looking for insight into the creative process as it is relevant to the creation of digital narrative, and system designers interested in exploring how the tools match the creative process. Presentations may range from the conventional to the experimental.