Ted Nelson Newcomer Award for best newcomer paper which is presented to the best paper written by authors who have never published in earlier Hypertext proceedings.

• 2011 | Anna Squicciarini, Smitha Sundareswaran, Dan Lin, and Josh Wede. A3P: adaptive policy prediction for shared images over popular content sharing sites.
• 2010 | Heiko Haller and Andreas Abecker. iMapping: a zooming user interface approach for personal and semantic knowledge management.
• 2009 | Thomas Beauvisage. The Dynamics of Personal Territories on the Web.
• 2008 | Klaas Dellschaft and Steffen Staab. An Epistemic Dynamic Model for Tagging Systems
• 2007 | Elizabeth Brown. Real users, real results: examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH
• 2006 | Name. Title
• 2005 | J. Nathan Matias. Philadelphia Fullerine: A Case Study in Three-Dimensional Hypermedia
• 2004 | George Buchanan, Ann Blandford, Matt Jones, Harold Thimbleby. Integrating Information Seeking and Structuring: Exploring the Role of Spatial Hypertext in a Digital Library
• 2003 | Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer. The Connectivity Sonar: Detecting Site Functionality by Structural Patterns
• 2002 | Peter Brusilovsky and Riccardo Rizzo. Map-based horizontal navigation in educational Hypertext
• 2001 | Adrian Miles. Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection
• 2000 | Susana Pajares Tosca. TA pragmatics of links.
• 1999 | Jill Walker. Piecing together and tearing apart: finding the story in Afternoon.