Call for Research Papers
"The World as Hypertext"

The 36th ACM Hypertext conference will be hosted in Chicago, US. The theme for this year “The World as Hypertext” seeks to bring together state of the art Hypertext research that not only targets the core research objectives of our community in hypertext technologies, link structures, digital humanities, and social media but seeks to understand technology, creativity, society, and scholarship through the lens of Hypertext.

Selected papers from ACM HT 2025 will be invited to extend their manuscript to be submitted to a special issue in the journal

“New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia“.

Important Dates (AoE Time)

April 25, 2025

May 9, 2025 (EXTENDED)

Paper Submission

May 30, 2025

June 20, 2025 (EXTENDED)

Notification of paper acceptance

June 20, 2025

July 14, 2025 (EXTENDED)

Camera-ready submission

We have designed the following tracks for paper submissions as a long or short research paper.

Track 1: Hyper-Systems

Infrastructure, Workflows, and Applications as Hypertext

Track chairs: Jian Wu (Old Dominion University) and Jessica Rubart (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

Track 1 seeks submissions on Hypertextual systems (including software, workflows, and data models) or Hypertextual approaches to technology. Systems papers describing novel architectures, original algorithms, innovative uses of AI and social media, or applied hypertext technology in cultural heritage, education, games, or more all fit within this track.

Topics include:

  • Traditional Hypertext Models and Systems
  • Information and Knowledge Hypertext Systems
  • Hypertext for Social Media tools and applications
  • Social Media Intelligence Systems
  • Hypertextual Digital Cultural Heritage Applications
  • Domain-specific hypertext applications, such as education, finance, etc.
  • AI as part of a Hypertext Workflow or System
  • Hypertextual approaches to recommender systems

Track 2: Hyper-Creation

Authorship, Media, and Readership as Hypertext

Track chairs: Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) and Marius Pisarski (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Track 2 focuses on the creation and consumption of Hypertext and Hypermedia. This includes design methods and best practices for creating hypertext, technology for creating hypertext, new forms of and approaches to hypertext, and understanding the impact of all of these things on the creative process, designers, developers, readers, users, and the Hypertext itself.

Topics include:

  • Authoring Tools or Creativity Support Tools for building Hypertext
  • Hypertext Design methodologies
  • Hypertextual content creation on social media
  • Reader/User/Player Experience of Hypertext Creative Content
  • Literature, Games, and Media as Hypertext
  • Generative AI content creation in Hypertext

Track 3: Hyper-Society

Communities. People, and Communication as Hypertext

Track chairs: Marija Dalbello (Rutgers University) and Eelco Herder (Utrecht University)

Track 3 calls for submissions exploring the human aspect of Hypertextual systems such as social media as well as research on Hypertextual structures and patterns in communities as well as the impact of Hypertext on society.

Topics include:

  • Analysis of link and network structures in Social Media
  • Social or communication applications of hypertext
  • Impact of Hypertext and AI on people and places
  • Mapping communities of people as hypertext
  • Hypertext and Misinformation
  • Humans-in-the-loop in AI Hypertext applications

Track 4: Hyper-Scholarship

Research, Philosophy, and Academia as Hypertext

Track chairs: Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems) and Erasmo Purificato (European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency)

Track 4 will be taking submissions on the impact of Hypertext on scholarship and research, scholarly philosophies and ethics of Hypertext, and new methodologies and research strategies in our community.

Topics include:

  • The philosophy of Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • New methodologies for Hypertext Research
  • Approaches to Hypertext User Studies and HCI
  • Ethical Hypertext
  • Hypertext in the generative AI and LLM era

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be written in English. Papers should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht25.

Anonymity. Submissions must be anonymous, given that ACM HT uses a double-blind review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors’ prior work should be made in the third person. Failure to anonymize your submission could result in desk rejection. It is acceptable to explicitly refer in the paper to the companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments or deployed solutions if there is no implication that the authors are currently affiliated with the mentioned organization. To release code and additional materials while preserving anonymity, we suggest using anonymous repositories such as https://anonymous.4open.science. We recommend that supplementary material is linked to an external source using an anonymized link.

Format. We encourage long and short paper submissions in the ACM two-column format:

  • Long papers (at most 8 pages for all contents, plus additional pages for references) should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. They should reflect more complex innovations or studies and should have a more thorough discussion of related work. Each accepted long paper will be included in the main conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program.
  • Short papers (at most 4 pages for all contents, plus additional pages for references) typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper – they are not “work-in-progress” reports but rather complete reports on a smaller or simpler-to-describe but complete research work on advances that can be described, set into context, and evaluated concisely. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking a strong theoretical foundation. Each accepted short paper will be included in the main conference proceedings and presented either as an oral presentation or at a poster session as part of the main conference program.

Templates. Following the ACM Publication Workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review in the ACM double-column format. Instructions for authors are given below:

Authorship Policy, including Generative AI Policy. Authors should carefully go through ACM’s authorship policy (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship) before submitting a paper. The part relevant to Generative AI is copied below:

“Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work. For example, the authors could include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of the Work: ChatGPT was utilized to generate sections of this Work, including text, tables, graphs, code, data, citations, etc. If you are uncertain ­about the need to disclose the use of a particular tool, err on the side of caution, and include a disclosure in the acknowledgements section of the Work.”

Please ensure that all authors are clearly identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To support the identification of reviewers with conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified in advance. No changes to authorship will be permitted after the submission deadline.

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