| Session 1: Hypertext Principles and Directions |
| Peter Nürnberg, Astrid Ensslin and Claus Atzenbeck |
Apprehending Hypertext |
| Lucia Lupi, Sam Brooker, Riccardo Fedriga, Davide Picca and Alessio Antonini |
From Gardens to Landscapes: a new Foundation for Hypertext in the Age of Agentic LLMs |
| Mark Anderson |
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought |
| Alessio Antonini |
Hypertext Research Vademecum: Translating Experimental Systems into Conceptual Contributions |
| Andrzej Adamski, Władysław Błocki, Mariusz Pisarski and Marcin Szewczyk |
Hypertext as the Native Architecture of Reality |
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| Session 2: Generative AI & Agentic Systems |
| Behnam Rahdari, Shriti Raj and Peter Brusilovsky |
Hyperlayered Hypertext: Rethinking Human-Document Interaction with Agentic AI |
| Qiming Sun and Sharon I-Han Hsiao |
Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals |
| Nicola Raffaele Di Matteo and Jamie Blustein |
Evidence Paths: Grounding LLM-Generated Hypotheses in Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs |
| Valentin Grimm, Jessica Rubart, Eelco Herder and Carsten Röcker |
The XAI-Seeking Principle: Structuring Explainability for LLM-Mediated Decision Support |
| Pedro Silva, Lucas Santos, Leandro Marinho and Cláudio Campelo |
Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework |
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| Session 3: Social Discourse and Information Wars |
| Mateus Brito, Ester Souza, Thiago Braga, Giordano Paoletti, Luca Vassio, Jussara M. Almeida and Leonardo Rocha |
Link-Traced Amplification: How Telegram Redistributes YouTube Political Content at Scale |
| Shirlene Rose Bandela, Sanjeev Parthasarathy and Vaibhav Garg |
Do You Feel Triggered? Analyzing Triggering Experiences Predominantly Shared by Women on Reddit |
| Valerio La Gatta, Gian Marco Orlando, Marco Perillo, Ferdinando Tammaro and Vincenzo Moscato |
Who Changes Their Mind? Exploring Stance Shifts in LLM-Based Social Media Simulations |
| Arthur Buzelin, Pedro Augusto Torres Bento, Yan Aquino Amorim, Arthur Rodrigues Chagas, Virgilio Almeida, Gisele Lobo Pappa and Wagner Meira Jr. |
YouTube Discourse During the Iran Conflict and the Afghanistan Withdrawal |
| Eun Cheol Choi and Emilio Ferrara |
Angry but Accurate: Detecting and Profiling the Counter-Misinformation Ecosystem on Twitter |
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| Session 4: Authorship, Reading & Publishing |
| Mark Bernstein |
A Reader’s Workbench: Reading With Friends |
| Elisa Bastianello and Christopher Tomlinson |
Bridging Digital and Publishing in the Humanities: Connecting Editorial Workflows through Open Standards |
| Sophia Liu, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu, Sarah Sterman, Shm Garanganao Almeda and Max Kreminski |
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation |
| Francesca Benatti, Siobhan Campbell and Alessio Antonini |
Connected Collaborations: Remediating Immersive Reading for Mental Wellbeing through AI |
| Dene Grigar, Andrew Thompson and Holly Slocum |
Hyperlinking in VASTE Space |
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| Session 5: Spatial Hypertext in Culture |
| Bob Rimington, Jack Brett and Charlie Hargood |
Linked Locative Ludonarrative and Heritage Hypertext Harmonies |
| Lisa Roßner, Sabine Slowik, Claus Atzenbeck and Peter Nürnberg |
Spatially Arranging is Knowing: Spatial Hypertext as Method for Digital Folkloristics |
| Polina Voronova and Alessandro Adamou |
A Graded Model of Semantic Commitment for Curated Cultural Heritage Data Integration |
| Berk Basaran, Emir Hadzikaric, Kenan Khauto, Nick Korjakin, Elias Morello, Simon Schütt, Emma Vujević, Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler |
Enhanced Immersive Use of Virtual Hypertexts through Gesture-controlled, collaborative Application of dynamic, AI-supported Event Systems with the Help of VR-ENV |
| Patrick Schrottenbacher, Alexander Mehler, Giuseppe Abrami, Lydia Kleine and Doris Stingl |
InterView: Towards a Unified XR Interview Environment |
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| Session 6: Systems, Protocols & Data Architectures |
| Alessandro Adamou |
Bringing the Web of Data to the Small Web: a Multi-Protocol Contract and the Chaykin Linked Data Server |
| Lucas Costa, Átila Souza, Elves Rodrigues, Rafael Glater, Mauricio Maia, Walter Santos, Marcelo Migueletto, Rodrygo Santos, Wagner Meira Jr. and Gisele Pappa |
ReSB$^2$: Retrieving Similar Brazilian State Bills |
| Władysław Błocki, Marcin Szewczyk and Andrzej Adamski |
Entropy Dynamics for Early Warning in Reuse-Based Communication Networks: Monitoring Structural Reorganization under Limited Observability |
| Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, Debayan Banerjee and Ricardo Usbeck |
ATLAS: Associative Typed Linked Answer Structures |
| Dominik Alexander Wontke, Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler |
Towards a Dynamic and Collaborative Environment Modification Framework within VR-ENV with the Help of VR-ENV-SC |
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| Session 7: Online Communities |
| Daniel Kansaon, Fabricio Benevuto and Diana Maynard |
Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Political Othering in Brazilian WhatsApp Discourse |
| Liuyun Ling and Keishi Tajima |
Identifying Social Media Accounts That Explain Fandom Hashtags |
| Shirlene Bandela, Karan Bindal, Vaibhav Garg and Rezvaneh Rezapour |
Stigma and Support in Online Sexual Violence Narratives on Reddit |
| Shah Noor Khan, Eelco Herder, Libio Goncalves Braz, Karlijn Dinnissen and Judith Masthoff |
User Perceptions and Responses to Minority Fairness in Music Recommendations and Item Labels |
| Aparup Khatua |
How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit |
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| Session 8: Semantic Networks |
| Carlo Teo Pedretti |
Reconstructing Peirce’s Trails of Thought: Multimodal Computational Analysis of Non-Linear Manuscript Composition |
| Gabo Beaumont and Mark Anderson |
The Emergence of Shared Meaning in Hypermedia Networks with No Central Gravity: The Case of Hypertext Conference 2026 |
| Raghav Sharma and Manan Mehta |
Edit-Distance Links: A Hypertextual Reading of Conditional-Tokenization World Models |
| Manan Mehta and Raghav Sharma |
Beyond the Blue Link: Empirical Evaluation of Generative Engine Optimization in Stochastic Retrieval Systems |
| Mariusz Pisarski |
Phantom Links: filling the gap in link typologies and semantics |
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| Session 9: Textual Analysis, Literature & Humanities |
| Alessandro Adamou, Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Sally Blackburn-Daniels, Sam Brooker, John Domingue, Derek Matravers, Carlo Teo Pedretti and Davide Picca |
Hypertextuality of Littorals: a Gap Analysis |
| Virginia Orlando, Alessandro Adamou and Alessio Antonini |
Travel Literature as Hypertext: Definition and Case Study of AI-enabled Interactive Explorations |
| Sam Brooker and Chris Boucher |
“It’s a lot of work, but it’s a lot of fun.” Rediscovering Hypertext in Jon Bois’ What Football Will Look Like in the Future. |
| Emmanuel Yusufu |
Multi-Modal Summarization for Accessible and Searchable Mobile Interfaces |
| Christopher Rauch, Rosina Weber and Mat Kelly |
Eight Linked Views from Nine-Component Extraction: Decomposing Professional Ethics Narratives |
| Pipob Puthipiroj |
Learning as Graph Traversal: Inducing Navigable Hypertext Structure from a Flat Corpus |
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| Session 10: AI and Hypertext in Education |
| Małgorzata Rataj and Iryna Berezovska |
The Efficiency Trap: Fragmented Curricula and AI-Driven Surface Learning in Higher Education |
| Wenjun Liu, Zhenhao Tian, Dake Liu and Charlie Hargood |
Designing GenAI-Supported Adaptive Hypermedia for Classical Chinese Poetry Learning: Expert-Informed Design Considerations |
| William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin and Diana Maynard |
Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations |
| Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia and Stefano Traverso |
TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training |
| Roya Hosseini and Peter Brusilovsky |
Adaptive Presentation of Worked Examples for Java Programming |
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| Session 11: AI and Identity |
| Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Ilkka Kaate and Bernard J. Jansen |
PersonaBase: A Formative Evaluation Study of Computational Resources for Data-Driven Personas |
| Meha Gupta and Akshat Joshi |
The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of Interpretation |
| Bernard J. Jansen, Marwan Akari, Safa Amin, Soon-Gyo Jung, Danial Amin and Joni Salminen |
“Half My Survey Data Is Bad; The Problem Is, I Can’t Tell Which Half”: Evaluating the Validatablity of Large-Scale Survey Data Using 176 Algorithmically Generated Personas |
| Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao and Shih-Yi Chien |
Beyond Exploration: AI-facilitated Information Visualization Structure for Complex Context Exploration and Decision-Making in Environmental Sustainability |
| Munduku Deo and Elsa Negre |
Explanation Structure as Personalization: Schema-Aligned Access Under Time Constraints |
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| Session 14: New Media & Future Perspectives |
| David Millard |
Permanently Under Construction: Hypertextual Friction in an AI-Augmented Zettelkasten |
| Robert Allen |
Supporting Exploration of Structured Qualitative Models |
| Mattia Thibault |
Towards a Media Multiverse |
| Raghav Sharma and Manan Mehta |
Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge Structures |
