Workshops

Accepted proposals

HUMAN’24 – Human Factors in Hypertext

Proponents:

  • Prof Dr Claus Atzenbeck, Institute for Information System, Hof University
  • Prof Dr Jessica Rubart, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Website: https://human.iisys.de/human24/

Keywords: User-Centric; Human-Centered; Information Structuring; UI; Interaction; Cognitive Aspects; Knowledge Work; Collaboration; Intercultural Aspects; Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Human-Centered Information Systems

HUMAN 2024 is intended to be the 7th workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. The HUMAN workshop has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous conferences.
The user-centric view on hypertext not only includes user interfaces and interaction, but also discussions about hypertext application domains as well as human-centered AI. Furthermore, the workshop raises the question of how original hypertext ideas (e.g., Doug Engelbart’s “augmenting human intellect” or Frank Halasz’ “hypertext as a medium for thinking and communication”) can improve today’s hypertext systems.

Important Dates:

  • Papers submission deadline: June 30, 2024 (AoE)
  • Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2024 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready paper due: August 5, 2024 (AoE)
  • Workshop: September 10, 2024 (half day) – hybrid

Submission: EasyChair : Choose Workshop – Human Factors in Hypertext (WS – HUMAN track)


Web/Comics’24 – Webcomics: Creativity in Small Spaces

Proponents:

  • Dr Francesca BenattiThe Open University
  • Linda BerubeCity, University of London
  • Dr Ernesto PriegoCity, University of London

Website: https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/web-comics-2024-workshop-creativity-in-small-spaces/

Keywords: Webcomics, Hypercomics, Creativity, Transmedia, Interfaces, Communities.

Web/Comics 2024 continues the workshop series commenced at last year’s ACM Hypertext conference. It focuses on the transformation of the comics medium enacted by hypertext through the emergence of webcomics, or “graphic sequential narratives that are created, published, and read on-line” [1].
The Web/Comics workshop brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities and technological communities to share work and discuss the latest research on webcomics from the perspectives of multiple disciplines. It wants to act as a bridge to
increase collaboration between the comics and hypertext research communities.
Researchers and practitioners working with webcomics or hypertext are invited to attend this workshop. Participants are asked to submit a short (between 2 and 4 pages) position paper on their current work. The planned event is a half day hybrid workshop with sessions based around short presentations, with emphasis on opportunities for dialogue and discussion in the final roundtable session.

[1] Ernesto Priego. 2011. The comic book in the age of digital reproduction. Retrieved May 19, 2021 from https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1322966/.

Important dates:

  • Papers submission deadline: : June 15, 2024 July 13, 2024* (AoE)
  • Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2024 July 25, 2024* (AoE)
  • Camera-ready paper due: August 10, 2024 (AoE)
  • Workshop: September 9 2024 (half day, afternoon session) – hybrid

Submission: EasyChair : Choose Workshop – Web/Comics (WS – Web/Comics track)


OASIS’24 – Open Challenges in Online Social Networks

Proponents:

  • Barbara Guidi, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
  • Andrea Michienzi, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
  • Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Website: https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/oasis2024/home

Keywords: Social Networks and Media: analysis and mining, Metaverse, Web3, Decentralization, AI for Social Media.

Since their introduction, Online Social Networks deeply changed the way humans interact with each other, offering countless new possibilities and demolishing the physical barriers among people. Their worldwide adoption introduced numerous problems, including poor privacy management, the spread of fake news, the impact of bot accounts, architectural scalability, a poor redistribution of the economic value generated, and others. This workshop aims to attract contributions that can identify relevant problems in both centralized and decentralized Online Social Networks and propose innovative solutions to these problems.

Important dates:

  • Papers submission deadline: June 19, 2024 July 10, 2024* (AoE, UCT -12)
  • Notification of acceptance: July 19, 2024(AoE)
  • Camera-ready paper due: August 9, 2024 (AoE)
  • Workshop: September 9 or 10, 2024 (half day, exact date tbc) – hybrid

Submission: EasyChair : Choose Workshop – Open Challenges in Online Social Networks.


LIRAI’24 – Legal Information Retrieval meets Artificial Intelligence

Proponents:

  • Sabine Wehnert, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Dr Manuel Fiorelli, Tor Vergata University of Rome
  • Dr Davide Picca, University of Lausanne
  • Prof Ernesto William De Luca, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg 
  • Prof Armando Stellato, Tor Vergata University of Rome 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/LIRAI-2024

Keywords: Legal Informatics, Legal Information Retrieval, Legal Knowledge Representation, Legal Text Mining, Legal Compliance, FAIRness, Semantic Web, Linguistic Legal Linked Open Data, Explainable AI, High-Recall Retrieval, Hybrid Approaches, Generative AI

LIRAI is a workshop series on Legal Information Retrieval and Legal Artificial Intelligence. It provides a forum for discussing current trends and challenges in legal artificial intelligence, specifically related to the hypertext nature of legal documents and retrieval tasks. The second edition of LIRAI focuses on three main directions: explainable / justifiable artificial intelligence, hybrid systems that combine formal approaches and machine learning-based methods, including deep learning-based methods, and finally generative artificial intelligence. We call for contributions on these topics in the form of short and long papers, and we aim to publish them as open-access proceedings on CEUR-WS.org once again.

Important Dates:

  • Optional abstract submission: 02 July 2024
  • Papers submission deadline: 18 June 2024 12 July 2024 (AoE)
  • Notification of acceptance: 24 July 2024 29 July 2024 (AoE)
  • End of Early Bird Rate: 31 July 2024
  • Camera-ready paper due: 13 Aug 2024 (AoE)
  • Workshop: September 10, 2024 (half day, morning session)

Submission: EasyChair (note that LIRAI has its own EasyChair conference page and there is no submission for LIRAI on the HT’24 EasyChair conference page).


NHT’24 – Narrative and Hypertext

Proponents:

  • Dr Charlie Hargood, SciTech, Bournemouth University
  • Prof David Millard, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
  • Prof Valentina Nisi, IST, University of Lisbon
  • Prof Nuno Nunes, IST, University of Lisbon

Website: https://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Keywords: Narrative, Hypertext, Digital Humanities, Narrative Games, Interactive Digital Narratives

NHT is a continuing workshop series associated with the ACM Hypertext conference for over a decade. The workshop acts as forum of discussion for the narrative systems community within the wider audience of the Hypertext conference. The workshop runs both presentations from authors of accepted short research papers, and unstructured unconference sessions to provide a venue for important discussions of issues facing and opportunities for members of the narrative and hypertext community. This year the workshop aims to build on last years discussed of “Mixed Reality Hypertext” with a targeted discussion of the ethics confronting narrative hypertext and specifically mixed reality hypertext as part of a wider discussion on the ethics of mixed reality games.

Important Dates:

  • Papers submission deadline: 12 July 2024 19 July 2024(AoE)
  • Notification of acceptance: 2 Aug 2024 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready paper due: 9 Aug 2024(AoE)
  • Workshop: September 9, 2024 (full day) – hybrid

Submission: Papers should be emailed directly to the organisers before the deadline (AoE time). See the Call for Papers webpage for more information.


PiM’24 – Positive Intelligent Media

Proponents:

  • Dr Alessio Antonini, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
  • Dr Iman Naja, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Website: TBC

Keywords: Positive Computing, Health Humanities, Digital Health, Bibliotherapy, Wellbeing

The 1st edition of the Positive Intelligent Media workshop brings together scholars and practitioners with a shared interest in interactive intelligent hypertext systems for health, wellbeing and resilience. The workshop will provide the opportunity to develop a common agenda for this new field and define the research objectives around computational methods for steering positive use, evaluation methods, and applications of positive systems. The workshop will accept proposals for lightning talks that will be used to bootstrap a full day of group work and discussions. The workshop aims to produce a white paper and a community manifesto.

Important Dates:

  • Lighting talks deadline: TBC (AoE)
  • Notification of acceptance: TBC (AoE)
  • Workshop: September 9 and 10, 2024 (2 half days) – in person

Submission: EasyChair. Choose Workshop – Positive Intelligent Media (WS – PiM track)