Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext

Washington DC, USA, March 16-20, 1996

The Technical Program

Hypertext '96 will provide a common setting for researchers and practicing professionals to share experiences and to compare notes about hypermedia authoring, publishing, system construction, human-computer interaction, digital libraries, and electronic literature. Attendees come with backgrounds in computing, psychology, literature, sociology, engineering, law, medicine -- many different fields.

We invite your participation.

Monday, March 18

9:00-10:30

Plenary Session: Opening Keynote

Randall H. Trigg, Xerox PARC, Title to be announced

11:00-12:30

Papers Session: Spatial Hypertexts

Content-oriented Integration in Hypermedia System, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara, Hajime Takano, Shigehito Kawasaki

The Structure of Hypertext Activity, Jim Rosenberg

Perspective Session

2:00-3:30

Papers Session: Autonomous Hypertext Systems and Link Discovery

Automatic Hypertext Link Typing, James Allan

Automatic Text Decomposition Using Text Segments and Text Themes, Gerard Salton, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, and Mandar Mitra

Papers Session: Hypertext Rhetoric and Criticism

Hypertextual Dynamics in A Life Set for Two, Robert Kendall

Hypertext with Consequence: Recovering a Politics of Hypertext, Diane Greco

4:00-5:30

Papers Session: Models of Hypermedia Design and Evaluation

Evaluating Hytime: An Examination and Implementation Experience, John Buford

Systematic Hypermedia Application Design with OOHDM, Daniel Schwabe, Gustavo Rossi, Simone D.J. Barbosa

Panel Session

Visual Metaphor and the Problem of Complexity in the Design of Web Sites: Techniques for Generating, Recognizing and Visualizing Structure; Michael Joyce, Vassar College; Robert Kolker, University of Maryland (Co-chair); Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore; Ben Schneiderman, University of Maryland (Co-chair); John Merritt Unsworth, University of Virginia

Tuesday, March 19

9:00-10:30

Plenary Session: Keynote

Leigh Star, Department of Library and Information Science, UIUC Title to be announced

11:00-12:30

Papers Session: Open Hypermedia

The HyperDisco Approach to Open Hypermedia Systems, Uffe Kock Wiil and John J. Leggett

Toward a Dexter-based model for open hypermedia: Unifying embedded references and link objects, Kaj Gronbak and Randall H. Trigg

Papers Session: Navigation in the World-Wide Web

Browsing the WWW by interacting with a textual virtual environment - A framework for experimenting with navigational metaphors, Andreas Dieberger

HyPursuit: A Hierarchical Network Search Engine that Exploits Content-Link Hypertext Clustering, Ron Weiss, Bienvenido Velez, Mark A. Sheldon, Chanathip Nemprempre, Peter Szilagyi, David K. Gifford

2:00-3:30

Papers Session: Systems and Infrastructure

HyperStorM: An Extendable Object-Oriented Hypermedia Engine Authors: Ajit Bapat, Jurgen Wasch, Karl Aberer, Joerg M. Haake

Media-based Navigation with Generic Links Steve R. Griffiths, Rob J. Wilkins, Paul H. Lewis, Hugh C. Davis Wendy Hall

Panel Session

The Process of Discovery: Hypertext and Scholarship: John B. Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; George Landow, Brown University; Elli Mylonas, Brown University (Chair); (other participants to be announced)

4:00-6:00

Paper/Panel Session: Versioning

Panel

Paper mini-session: Extending the World-Wide Web (4:00-5:00)

Experiences in Developing Collaborative Applications Using the World Wide Web "Shell", Andreas Girgensohn, Alison Lee, and Kevin Schlueter

Perspectives mini-session: Evaluation (5:00-6:00)

Punyashloke Mishra and Kim Nguyen (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne) "Reading Hypertext Fiction: The effect of Individual Beliefs and Assumptions about Authors, Readers and Texts"

Blair Nonnecke, Richard Jacques, Diane McKerlie, Jenny Preece (South Bank University) "Video-Based Hypermedia: Guiding Design with Users' Questions"

Gary Marchionini (University of Maryland) Chair and Commentator [Gary Perlman, Commentator]

Wednesday, March 20

9:00-10:30

Panel Session

Future Spaces: Mark Amerika (Brown University), Cathy Marshall (Texas A&M), Tom Meyer (Brown University, Chair), Mark Pesche (other panelists to be announced)

Mini Perspectives: WWW Authoring and Collaboration

Michael Bieber (New Jersey Institute of Technology) "Crafting the Electronic Edition of the _Communications of the ACM_ August 1995 Special Issue on Hypermedia Design"

Paul De Bra and Frank Dignum (Eindhoven University of Technology) "Collaborative Hypertext Authoring in the Web"

Gary Hill, Les Carr, Dave De Roure and Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) "The Distributed Link Service: Multiple Views on the WWW"

John R. Wolcott and Joan E. Robertson (University of Washington): "The WWW as an Environment for Collaborative Research: An Experiment in Graduate Education"

Norbert Streitz, GMD-IPSI (Co-Chair) Steven J. DeRose, Electronic Book Technologies (Co-Chair)

11:00-12:30

Plenary Session: Closing Keynote

Demonstrations

Demonstrations allow attendees to get first-hand views of innovative hypertext technology and applications and talk informally with system developers and authors. Presenters should be individuals who have been directly involved with the development of the system, and who are aware of the novel ideas embodied by their system.

Inquiries from North, Central, and South America:

Frank Shipman

Hypermedia Research Lab

Department of Computer Science

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3112

email: shipman@cs.tamu.edu

phone: 409 862 3216

fax: 409 847 8578

You may ftp submissions to: bush.cs.tamu.edu, path: pub/incoming/ht96-demos

Inquiries from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia:

Joerg Haake

GMD-IPSI

Dolivostr. 15

D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany

email: haake@darmstadt.gmd.de

phone: +49 6151 869 918

fax: +49 6151 869 818

You may ftp submissions to: ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de, path: incoming/ht96-demos

Posters

Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated through conversation. Poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the same topic.

Inquiries from North, Central, and South America:: Frank Shipman; Hypermedia Research Lab; Department of Computer Science; Texas A&M University; College Station, TX 77843-3112; email: shipman@cs.tamu.edu; phone: 409 862 3216; fax: 409 847 8578; You may ftp submissions to: bush.cs.tamu.edu, path: pub/incoming/ht96-posters
Inquiries from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia:: Joerg Haake; GMD-IPSI; Dolivostr. 15; D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany; email: haake@darmstadt.gmd.de; phone: +49 6151 869 918; fax: +49 6151 869 818; You may ftp submissions to: ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de, path: incoming/ht96-posters

Doctoral Consortium

Doctoral students in an advanced stage of their studies (beyond proposal stage) are invited to apply for participation in this event. About ten students will be invited to participate. At the Doctoral Consortium meeting, each student gives a research presentation to the other attendees and the review committee. Advice is given on the research and social events are planned for the group. To apply, submit a CV, a letter of recommendation from your advisor and a technical paper to either one of the coordinators.

Submissions from North, Central, and South America:: Tomas Isakowitz; Department of Information Systems; Stern School of Business; New York University; MEC 9-79; 44 West 4th Street; New York, NY 10012-1126; Fax: +1 (212) 995-4228
Submissions from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia:: Franca Garzotto; Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione; Politecnico di Milano; Piazza L. da Vinci 32; 20133 Milano - Italy; Fax: +39-2-23993411