The hypertext paradigm has transformed the way we store and transfer knowledge and how we think about information and access it. We access the same sources via multiple devices, ranging from smart watches and smart phones to laptops. Information and transactions become ever more visual, with video increasingly replacing traditional text-based web pages. Particularly, we use interactive hypertext, news feeds and videos for getting things done: planning a trip, managing our finances, interacting with colleagues, friends and family, being productive and creative.

At Hypertext 2021, we aim to further discuss, reflect, investigate and look forward on all of these developments, from the mixed perspectives of technology, users and society. What trends can be observed? What societal issues arise or can now be investigated? How can the user experience be further improved? What alternative, creative and fun novel applications does hypertext enable and facilitate?

We welcome the following types of submissions:

A. Main Conference Tracks
B. Late Breaking Results Track
C. Doctoral Consortium Track
D. Workshops & Exhibitions

Find more details about the submission and review process here.

The Adaptive Web and Recommendation Systems track invites submissions focused on the interaction between (social) recommendation and knowledge transfer, for example in personalized news feeds, wikis, multimedia narratives, but also for non-linear teaching and learning. Contributions may focus on empirical analysis of user interactions with personalized Web systems to improve our understanding of individual and collective user behavior, explore novel user models and novel recommendation and personalization algorithms, or focus on understanding of mutual interdependence between user behavior and algorithms.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Recommendation algorithms
• Recommender and personalisation system evaluation
• User modelling and preference elicitation
• Users’ perception of recommender systems
• Explanations of recommendations
• Responsible recommendation including fairness and transparency
• Music, video and media recommendation
• Recommendation of learning materials
• Web user profiles
• Adaptive navigation support
• Personalised search
• Social navigation and social search
• Web content adaptation
• Analytics of web user data
• Recommendations on social media platforms
• Collaborative content creation on the Web

The Social Web track invites work in the areas of data science and computational social science aimed at investigating the role of the Web in shaping social processes that impact online or offline societal outcomes. Contributions may focus on studying behaviour, norms, and psychological perceptions that characterise Web-mediated social interactions and might help either limiting undesirable outcomes (e.g., conflict, hate speech, misinformation) or promoting positive social dynamics (e.g., cooperation, integration, support, knowledge diffusion). Contributions focusing on multimodal social interactions (i.e., not limited to text) are particularly welcome.

Hypertext and the WWW form an intricate interplay of semi- or unstructured textual data and structured data. To make sense of this, both natural language processing and semantic web techniques are required. In this track, we invite submissions that address the interpretation of hypertext and WWW content through the lens of these two disciplines. Related to the main conference theme ‘Hypertext in a Multi-Modal World’ we specifically invite contributions that address multisensory information from an NLP or semantic web perspective (e.g. work that explores the relationship between text and images and/or other modalities and how to model these).

The human-information interaction, search and retrieval track invites submissions focused on user-centred approaches to the design and evaluation of hypertext systems for information access, retrieval, and use. Contributions may explore improvements to existing hypertext systems, propose novel models, and systems, or focus on understanding individual and group interactions with hypertext information systems.

The Digital Humanities and Culture track invites explorations of hypertext as a creative tool, shaping literature, culture, and play. Contributions may explore the humanist impact of hypertext systems; cultural works engaging with novel uses of hypertext systems; and digital humanities research driven by changing platforms.