🚀 Launching HT Award Spotlight!
Every week we’ll highlight past Hypertext winners: 🏆 Best Paper & 🎓 Best Student Paper.
Celebrating Hypertext’s history & inspiring you to explore innovative hypertext research.
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📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Approaching!
Get your work in by April 27th!
Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research.
🔗 Details: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/
📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Extended! 📢More time to submit your research!
📝 New deadline: April 27
Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research.
🔗 Details: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2012
Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou et al.: Graph and Matrix Metrics to Analyze Ergodic Literature for Children
Graph-based metrics (e.g., PageRank) reveal how readers navigate and how plots develop in ergodic stories.
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper 2011
Kawase et al.: Beyond the Usual Suspects – smart, context-aware recommendations for revisiting web content beyond the usual history.
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2011
Anna Squicciarini et al.: A3P – a system that predicts image privacy settings using content and metadata, helping users regain control (≈90% accuracy).
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper 2010
James Goulding, Tim Brailsford & Helen Ashman: Hyperorders and Transclusion – explores the ZigZag hypertext and transclusion, and why it hasn’t been widely adopted.
Hypertext: https://www.sigweb.org/awards
#Hypertext #ACM
🎓 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2010
Heiko Haller & Andreas Abecker: iMapping – a zooming interface for visually organizing personal knowledge, combining spatial hypertext with mind- and concept-mapping.
🔗 Hypertext: https://www.sigweb.org/awards
📢 #HT2026 Workshop Deadline Extended! 📢
We’ve extended the Workshops submission deadline by two weeks!
🗓️ New deadline: March 13
Submit your proposal and join the conversation.
🔗 Details: [https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/](https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/)
Clock’s ticking! ⏳
The deadline for #ACMHT2026 workshop submissions is approaching fast.
📅 Deadline: Feb 27, 2026 (AoE)
📝 Instructions: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/open-calls/workshops/
Get those proposals in! 🚀 #Hypertext #AcademicTwitter #CallForPapers
📢 Hypertext 2026 is officially open! 📢
The website and Call for Papers for #HT2026 are now LIVE.
Join us for the latest in hypertext research, social media dynamics, and beyond.
📍 London
🗓️ September 14-18
📝 Deadlines and details:
📢 Due to recent travel advisories from some countries, we have decided to shift the conference to a hybrid format, allowing for remote presentations if the presenters have difficulties in travel restrictions or VISA applications.
🗓️ Please note that the new full/short paper submission deadline has been extended to May 9, 2025.
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
📢 Call for blue skies
We're thrilled to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) for a special “Blue Sky Ideas” track at HT2025!
💡 Top 3 papers will receive CCC travel awards:
🥇 $1000 🥈 $750 🥉 $500
📅 Important Dates (AoE):
📝 Submission Deadline: June 6
📬 Notification: July 4
📄 Camera-Ready: July 18
More details on: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/call-for-late-breaking-and-blue-skies/
🗓️ 10-days to go! The full/short paper submission deadline is April 25!
🚀 Call for Research Papers: ACM Hypertexts 2025 🚀
PC Chairs: Charlie Hargood, Dongwon Lee
Tracks:
📌 Hyper-Systems
📌 Hyper-Creation
📌 Hyper-Society
📌 Hyper-Scholarship
Papers Due: April 25, 2025
Notifications: May 30, 2025
More details on the website: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/call-for-res
🛠️ Day 3 Workshops
Dive into interactive sessions exploring hypertext, data, and human-centered design. A space for deep discussion and collaboration.
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
Just missed the #HT2026 research paper deadline by a few minutes?
You’re in luck — the submission link is still open until this Thursday!
📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Extended!
More time to submit your research!
📝 New deadline: April 17
Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research.
🔗 Details: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/
#HT2026 #ACM #Hypertext #Research #CFP
🏆 Congrats to our #HT2025 Paper Award Winners!
🚀Best Paper: Hugo Lai, Vincent Labatut, Raphaël Fournier-S’niehotta & Jean-Charles Lamirel
🚀Best Student Paper: Navid Ayoobi, Lily Knab, Wen Cheng, David Pantoja, Hamidreza Alikhani, Sylvain Flamant, Jin Kim & Arjun Mukherjee
👏 Outstanding research shaping the future of hypertext!
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2015
Axel Schulz, Benedikt Schmidt, Thorsten Strufe: Small-Scale Incident Detection based on Microposts
Detecting small-scale incidents from microposts using spatial-temporal clustering. The method combines multiple incident-defining properties, a hybrid efficient pipeline, and robust feature extraction, achieving 32.14% detection (vs ~6% SOTA) and 77% precision on Seattle data.
🔗 sigweb.org/awards
#Hypertext #ACM #SocialMediaAnalytics
Day 4 at #HT2025 ✅
From Hypercreation & Systems to Generative AI & Games, today’s sessions brought powerful ideas and inspiring debates on hypertext, AI, media, and society.
Thanks to all who joined and shared their ideas! 💡✨
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
📣 Call for Submissions – HT2025
We're now accepting submissions for:
🔹 Late Breaking and Blue Skies
🔹 Demos & Exhibits
📆 Important Dates
Papers Due: June 6, 2025
Notification : July 4, 2025
More details on: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2017
Andreas Thalhammer et al.: Entity-centric Data Fusion on the Web
Entity-level fusion of web data. Schema-independent alignment of entity descriptions; improved knowledge panels vs. baselines.
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2016
Britta Meixner, Christoph Einsiedler: Download and Cache Management for HTML5 Hypervideo Players
Hypervideo pre-fetching strategies for HTML5/MSE reduce waiting times when navigating interactive video links. By optimizing download and cache management, playback interruptions drop from 8.1 to <1 break on average, cutting total waiting time by ~1/3 (to <18s) and improving user experience.
🔗 sigweb.org/awards
#Hypertext #HTML5 #Hypervideo
📢 Registration for ACM HT2025 is now open!
Join us in Chicago to explore the latest in Hypertext and Social Media research.
📆 Dates: September 8–11, 2025
📍 Registe now: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/registration/
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2014
Georges Gouriten, Silviu Maniu, Pierre Senellart: Scalable, Generic, and Adaptive Systems for Focused Crawling
The paper explores "focused crawling"—iteratively navigating graphs (like the Web or social networks) to prioritize the most valuable nodes under limited resources, using scalable and adaptive strategies.
🔎 Call for Demos & Exhibitions 🔍
Are you working on cutting-edge hypertext technologies, AI-driven applications, or immersive digital experiences? Showcase your innovations at ACM Hypertext 2025 in our Demos & Exhibitions！
🖌️ Chairs: David Millard, Emanuel Lacić
📆 Important Dates
Paper submission: June 6, 2025
Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
More details on: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/call-for-demos-and-exhibitions/
🖼️ Day 3 Posters & Demos
Explore fresh research and innovative ideas, meet the authors, and see hypertext in action.
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
💸 Want to come to HT2025 in Chicago but worried about costs?
We’ve got you covered!
Apply for student grants and diversity support today
👉 https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/grants-and-support/
🎉 The Closing Ceremony wrapped up #HT2025 with gratitude and inspiration.
Four days of keynotes, sessions, posters & awards have come to an end — thank you to all speakers, participants & organizers who made this conference unforgettable!
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2014
Janette Lehmann et al.: Readers Preference and Behavior on Wikipedia
The paper analyzes how Wikipedia readers behave, showing that the most read articles aren’t always the most edited, revealing a gap between reader interests and editor activity.
🌟 Day 3 Keynote & Panel Inspiring talks and discussions on the future of hypertext and AI. Don’t miss today’s big conversations!
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
📢 #HT2026 Paper Deadline Extended! 📢More time to submit your research!
📝 New deadline: April 17
Submit your work and join the latest discussions in hypertext research.
🔗 Details: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2018
Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu and Jon Atle Gulla: A Deep Joint Network for Session-based News Recommendations with Contextual Augmentation
Research on news recommendation systems.
🚀 Call for Late Breaking and Blue Skies 🚀
📢 Are you working on early-stage research, visionary ideas, or bold new directions in hypertext and social media? The Late Breaking & Blue Skies track at ACM Hypertext 2025 is looking for innovative submissions!
🖌️ Chairs: David Millard, Ben Steichen
📆 Important Dates
Paper submission: June 6, 2025
Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
More details on: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/call-for-late-breaking-and-blue-skies/
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Best Paper 2012
Björn Elmar Macek et al.: Anatomy of a Conference
Analysis of Hypertext 2011 reveals participant roles, communication, and session behavior using CONFERATOR data.
📢 Call for Tutorials! 📢
Are you an expert in hypertext, social media, or emerging web technologies? We invite researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners to propose tutorials for ACM Hypertext 2025!
🎓 Chairs: Alessio Antonini, Jamie Blustein
📆 Important Dates (AoE Time)
Deadline for tutorial proposals: April 18, 2025
Notification of tutorial acceptance: April 23, 2025
More details on: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/call-for-tutorials/
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2018
Sumit Bhatia and Harit Vishwakarma: Know Thy Neighbors, and More!
Research on context-aware entity recommendation in knowledge graphs.
🌟 Day 1 at ACM Hypertext 2025 🌟
We are excited to welcome participants to the first day of hashtag#HT2025 in Chicago! 🎉
✅ Registration and check-in kicked off smoothly.
✅ Attendees connected during the welcome sessions and prepared for the exciting program ahead.
✅ With both in-person and virtual access, the conference ensures everyone can join and engage with the latest hypertext and web research.
More information here: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/program-overview/
#ht2025 #umap2025 #recsys2025 #ICWSM2025 #kdd2025
🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2017
Ujwal Gadiraju et al.: Clarity is a Worthwhile Quality
Task clarity in crowdsourcing. 100 workers + 7.1K tasks. ML: clarity consistent, not stable over time.