Program Overview
Program Schedule
| Dates | 15 September | 16 September | 17 September | 18 September | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Ballroom | Alumni Lounge | Ballroom | Ballroom | Ballroom | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | W: WADL | T: Meta | W: HUMAN | W: NHT | Paper Session S5 | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Breaks | |||||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | W: WADL | T: Meta | W: HUMAN | W: NHT | Paper Session S6 | |||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |||||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Town Hall Meeting (Ballroom) | |||||||
| Room | Ballroom | |||||||
| 14:00 - 15:34 | Opening 14:00 - 14:30 | Keynote 2 by Peter Brusilovsky 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote 3 by Ágnes Horvát 14:00 - 15:00 | TWEB and Blue Sky Session S7 | ||||
| Keynote 1 by Michelle Zhou 14:30 - 15:30 | Paper Session S2 15:00 - 15:34 | Paper Session S4 15:00 - 15:34 | ||||||
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||||||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Paper Session S1 | Paper Session S3 | Posters/Demos/Exhibits (Expo Room) | Closing | ||||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | *CAVE2 Exhibition | Banquet (Ballroom) | ||||||
Location
- Venue Information,https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/venue-information/
- Hermann Hall Map
Note
- Each long paper presentation is allocated a 22-minute time slot, while short paper talks are given 12 minutes. These durations include time for Q&A
- In Session 7, each presentation is scheduled for 20 minutes, including time for Q&A.
- For poster presenters, the poster size is 24 inches (width) by 36 inches (height). You can pay a poster printing fee in the registration system to have your poster printed in Chicago. You can pick up the poster from the registration desk at the ACM HT 2025 conference.
- *CAVE2 Exhibition is an optional event in which the CAVE2 authors present a Virtual Reality exhibition at the UIC campus. For more details, please refer to https://www-new.evl.uic.edu/news/2025/2025-09-15-2945/
Sessions
Keynote 1: From Hypertext to Hyper-AI: Introducing Human-Centered AI Agents by Dr. Michelle Zhou
Session 1: Hypercreation & Systems (Session Chair: Dene Grigar)
1615
Sarah Abowitz and Gregory Crane. Student Use of Commentaries with Inline Reference Resolution (Long)
8929
Alexander Petros, Carson Gross, Matthew Revelle and Dillon Shaffer. The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls (Long)
6573
Krzysztof Ziembik, Piotr Marecki and Bartosz Golda. Forth: The Best Programming Language for the End of the World? A Case Study on A.D. 2044 (1991) – Roland Pantoła’s Interactive Fiction (Long, Online)
4368
Salim Hafid, Yavuz Selim Kartal, Sebastian Schellhammer, Vetea Jacot, Sandra Bringay, Stefan Dietze and Konstantin Todorov. Disambiguation of Implicit Scientific References on X (Short, Online)
4923
Subasish Das. HyperSumm-RL: HyperSumm-RL: A Dialogue Summarization Framework for Modeling Leadership Perception in Social Robots (Short, Online)
Keynote 2: Human-AI Collaboration in Adaptive Information Access: From Adaptive Hypermedia to Recommender Systems by Dr. Peter Brusilovsky
Session 2: AI for News (Session Chair: Charlie Hargood)
2520
Alessio Antonini, Lucia Lupi, Mariusz Pisarski and Sam Brooker. Literary Hypertext, AI, and Google’s New Web: An Aesthetics Discussion (Long)[Best paper candidate]
8400
Dominik Soós, Meng Jiang and Jian Wu. Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News? (Short)
Session 3: Social Media (Session Chair: Taimoor Khan)
2479
Ruijie Xi and Munindar P. Singh. Moral Sparks in Social Media Narratives (Long, Online)
6472
Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala and Sajedul Talukder. Comprehensive Privacy Risk Assessment in Social Networks Using User Attributes Social Graphs and Text Analysis (Long)
3829
Tarannum Zaki, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle. Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots (Long)
6702
Masafumi Iwanaga and Keishi Tajima. Analysis of Echo Chamber Formation by Friend Recommendation (Short)
9154
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Dimitar Dimitrov and Stefan Dietze. Characterization of Tweet Deletion Patterns in the Context of COVID-19 Discourse and Polarization (Short)
Keynote 3: Communicating Science in the Digital Age by Dr. Ágnes Horvát
Session 4: Information (Session Chair: Jamie Blustein)
1202
Mark Bernstein, Silas Hooper and Mark W. R. Anderson. Back To The Information City (Long)[Best paper candidate]
0280
Ashfaq Ali Shafin and Khandaker Mamun Ahmed. Toxicity in State Sponsored Information Operations (Short)
Session 5: Hypersociety (Session Chair: Mark Anderson)
3904
Karlijn Dinnissen, Shah Noor Khan, Hanna Hauptmann, Eelco Herder and Judith Masthoff. A Qualitative Study on the Role of Fairness and Diversity in User Choices and Perceptions of Music Playlists (Long)
2408
Yavuz Selim Kartal, Kevin Schott and Dagmar Kern. Can I Trust and Share it? Enhancing Scientific Content in Social Media Posts with Additional Information (Long)[Best student paper candidate]
3865
Mark Anderson. W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext? (Long)
0498
Eric Kaltman and Joseph Osborn. Hypercitations of Historical Hypertexts (Short, Online)
5711
Giuseppe Abrami, Daniel Bundan, Chrisowaladis Manolis and Alexander Mehler. VR-ParlExplorer: A Hypertext System for the Collaborative Interaction in Parliamentary Debate Spaces (Short, Online)
Session 6: Gen AI & Games (Session Chair: Dongwan Lee)
3867
Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Beverlyn Tsai, Emilio Ferrara and Luca Luceri. Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X (Long)[Best student paper candidate]
2893
Jack Brett, Charlie Hargood, David Millard, Yoan-Daniel Malinov and Bob Rimmington. LUTE: A Hypertextual Mixed Reality Game Engine (Long)[Best paper candidate]
6501
Kallol Naha, Sajratul Yakin Rubaiat, Syed Nazmus Sakib and Hasan Jamil. WriteAssist: A Personalized Generative AI System for Autonomous Authoring of Scholarly Literature Reviews (Short)
4906
Jiaqing Yuan, Ruijie Xi and Munindar P. Singh. Reasoner Outperforms: Generative Stance Detection with Rationalization for Social Media (Short, Online)
1448
Navid Ayoobi, Lily Knab, Wen Cheng, David Pantoja, Hamidreza Alikhani, Sylvain Flamant, Jin Kim and Arjun Mukherjee. ESPERANTO: Evaluating Synthesized Phrases to Enhance Robustness in AI Detection for Text Origination (Long, Online)[Best student paper candidate]
Session 7: TWEB & Blue Sky (Session Chair: Jahangir Alam)
0
Jones, Shawn M., Martin Klein, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson. Summarizing Web Archive Corpora via Social Media Storytelling by Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars (TWEB)
2
Mark Bernstein. What is it like to be augmented? (Blue Sky)
9
Peter Nuernberg and Claus Atzenbeck. It Really is Structure, all the Way Down (Blue Sky)
10
Behnam Rahdari and Peter Brusilovsky. From Links to Dialogue; Hypertext Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Navigation (Blue Sky)
12
Sophia Liu and Shm Garanganao Almeda. Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web (Blue Sky)