Programme
Martin Eve’s keynote will be available online.
| Monday 14th | Tuesday 15th | Wednesday 16th | Thursday 17th | Friday 18th | ||||||
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| 09:00 | Registration & Welcome | Registration & Welcome | Registration & Welcome | Registration & Welcome | Registration & Welcome | |||||
| 09:30 | Workshop A: NHT Room D109 | Workshop B: Sunrise Room D110 | Doctoral Workshop Room D109 | Workshop C: Knowledge Graphs and Hypertext Room D110 | Keynote: Claus Atzenbeck Armillaria Hypertexta LTB | Keynote: Kate Pullinger The Infinite Story Demanders LTB | Keynote: Jay Bolter Generative AI and the future of hypertext LTB | |||
| 10:00 | ||||||||||
| 10:30 | Coffee Room D113A | Coffee Room D113A | Coffee Room D113A | |||||||
| 11:00 | Session 4: Authorship, Reading & Publishing Room D109 | Session 6: Systems, Protocols & Data Architectures Room D110 | Session 9: Textual Analysis, Literature & Humanities Room D109 | Session 12: Demos Room D110 | Session 13: New Media & Future Perspectives + Panel Room D109 | |||||
| 11:30 | ||||||||||
| 12:00 | ||||||||||
| 12:30 | Lunch Room D113A | Lunch Room D113A | Lunch Room D113A | |||||||
| 13:00 | Lunch Room D113A | Registration & Welcome | ||||||||
| 13:30 | Opening Ceremony Room D110 | Session 5: Hypertext Topologies in Culture Room D109 | Session 7: Online Communities Room D110 | Session 10: AI and Hypertext in Education Room D109 | Archive Visit Room D110 | Town Hall Room D109 | ||||
| 14:00 | Workshop E: Media Multiverse Room D109 | Workshop D: HUMAN Room D110 | Session 1: Hypertext Principles and Directions Room D109 | Session 3: Social Discourse and Information Warfare Room D110 | ||||||
| 14:30 | Closing and Awards Room D109 | |||||||||
| 15:00 | Break Room D113A | Break Room D113A | ||||||||
| 15:30 | Break Room D113A | Panel: Agentic Media Room D109 | Session 8: Semantic Networks Room D110 | Session 11: AI and Identity Room D109 | Panel: Technical Applications Room D110 | |||||
| 16:00 | Session 2: Generative AI & Agentic Systems Room D109 | Panel: Authorship, Reading & Publishing Room D110 | ||||||||
| 16:30 | ||||||||||
| 17:00 | Demo Session Room D109 | |||||||||
| 17:30 | Social Room D113A | Narrative Games Exhibition Room D109 | ||||||||
| 18:00 | ||||||||||
| 18:30 | ||||||||||
| 19:00 | Social Dinner Covent Garden | |||||||||
For those who RSVP’d, we will make our way to the Globe Theatre straight from the Demo session on Thursday. You are welcome to meet at the main entrance at 19:00 instead, if you prefer. Tickets will be collected and distributed by the conference committee.
Sessions
The timings for all presentations are as follows:
- Full papers: 12 min + 3 min Q&A
- All other papers (short/work in progress/blue sky/demo): 7 min + 3 min Q&A
Discussions will take place after each presentation; if you are an author please time your presentation in order to allow three minutes of discussion.
These timings allow additional time during each session, to accommodate overrun and technical issues. Chairs may adjust these timings on the day, at their discretion.
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Session 1: Hypertext Principles and Directions | |
| Peter Nürnberg, Astrid Ensslin and Claus Atzenbeck | Apprehending Hypertext https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830876EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830866EPUB |
| Mark Anderson | The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830850EPUB |
| Alessio Antonini | Hypertext Research Vademecum: Translating Experimental Systems into Conceptual Contributions https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830881EPUB |
| Andrzej Adamski, Władysław Błocki, Mariusz Pisarski and Marcin Szewczyk | Hypertext as the Native Architecture of Reality https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830889EPUB |
| Session 2: Generative AI & Agentic Systems | |
| Behnam Rahdari, Shriti Raj and Peter Brusilovsky | Hyperlayered Hypertext: Rethinking Human-Document Interaction with Agentic AI https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830890EPUB |
| Qiming Sun and Sharon I-Han Hsiao | Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830854EPUB |
| Nicola Raffaele Di Matteo and Jamie Blustein | Evidence Paths: Grounding LLM-Generated Hypotheses in Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830863EPUB |
| Valentin Grimm, Jessica Rubart, Eelco Herder and Carsten Röcker | The XAI-Seeking Principle: Structuring Explainability for LLM-Mediated Decision Support https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830869EPUB |
| Pedro Silva, Lucas Santos, Leandro Marinho and Cláudio Campelo | Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830873EPUB |
| Session 3: Social Discourse and Information Warfare | |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830834EPUB |
| Shirlene Rose Bandela, Sanjeev Parthasarathy and Vaibhav Garg | Do You Feel Triggered? Analyzing Triggering Experiences Predominantly Shared by Women on Reddit https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830849EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830836EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830874EPUB |
| Eun Cheol Choi and Emilio Ferrara | Angry but Accurate: Detecting and Profiling the Counter-Misinformation Ecosystem on Twitter https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830879EPUB |
| Session 4: Authorship, Reading & Publishing | |
| Mark Bernstein | A Reader’s Workbench: Reading With Friends https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830862EPUB |
| Elisa Bastianello and Christopher Tomlinson | Bridging Digital and Publishing in the Humanities: Connecting Editorial Workflows through Open Standards https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830875EPUB |
| Sophia Liu, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu, Sarah Sterman, Shm Garanganao Almeda and Max Kreminski | Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830891EPUB |
| Francesca Benatti, Siobhan Campbell and Alessio Antonini | Connected Collaborations: Remediating Immersive Reading for Mental Wellbeing through AI https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830847EPUB |
| Dene Grigar, Andrew Thompson and Holly Slocum | Hyperlinking in VASTE Space https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830858EPUB |
| Session 5: Hypertext Topologies in Culture | |
| Bob Rimington, Jack Brett and Charlie Hargood | Linked Locative Ludonarrative and Heritage Hypertext Harmonies https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830844EPUB |
| Lisa Roßner, Sabine Slowik, Claus Atzenbeck and Peter Nürnberg | Spatially Arranging is Knowing: Spatial Hypertext as Method for Digital Folkloristics https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830886EPUB |
| Polina Voronova and Alessandro Adamou | A Graded Model of Semantic Commitment for Curated Cultural Heritage Data Integration https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830857EPUB |
| Carlo Teo Pedretti | Reconstructing Peirce’s Trails of Thought: Multimodal Computational Analysis of Non-Linear Manuscript Composition https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830878EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830868EPUB |
| Lucas Costa, Átila Souza, Elves Rodrigues, Rafael Glater, Mauricio Maia, Walter Santos, Marcelo Migueletto, Rodrygo Santos, Wagner Meira Jr. and Gisele Pappa | ReSB2: Retrieving Similar Brazilian State Bills https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830843EPUB |
| Władysław Błocki, Marcin Szewczyk and Andrzej Adamski | Entropy Dynamics for Early Warning in Reuse-Based Communication Networks: Monitoring Structural Reorganization under Limited Observability https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830867EPUB |
| Silas Hooper and Mark Bernstein | The Link and the Journey: Hypertext at Civic Scal https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830859EPUB |
| Session 7: Online Communities | |
| Daniel Kansaon, Fabricio Benevenuto and Diana Maynard | Us vs. Them: A Dataset of Political Othering in Brazilian WhatsApp Discourse https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830842EPUB |
| Liuyun Ling and Keishi Tajima | Identifying Social Media Accounts That Explain Fandom Hashtags https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830960EPUB |
| Shirlene Bandela, Karan Bindal, Vaibhav Garg and Rezvaneh Rezapour | Stigma and Support in Online Sexual Violence Narratives on Reddit https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830853EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830871EPUB |
| Aparup Khatua | How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830872EPUB |
| Session 8: Semantic Networks | |
| Gabo Beaumont and Mark Anderson | The Emergence of Shared Meaning in Hypermedia Networks with No Central Gravity: The Case of Hypertext Conference 2026 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830848EPUB |
| Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Vineeth Kalluru and Adit Kotwal | Edit-Distance Links: A Hypertextual Reading of Conditional-Tokenization World Models https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830861EPUB |
| Manan Mehta, Raghav Sharma, Vineeth Kalluru and Adit Kotwal | Beyond the Blue Link: Empirical Evaluation of Generative Engine Optimization in Stochastic Retrieval Systems https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830864EPUB |
| Mariusz Pisarski | Phantom Links: filling the gap in link typologies and semantics https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830888EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830884EPUB |
| Virginia Orlando, Alessandro Adamou and Alessio Antonini | Travel Literature as Hypertext: Definition and Case Study of AI-enabled Interactive Explorations https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830882EPUB |
| 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. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830887EPUB |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Learning as Graph Traversal: Inducing Navigable Hypertext Structure from a Flat Corpus https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830839EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830885EPUB |
| Wenjun Liu, Zhenhao Tian, Dake Liu and Charlie Hargood | Designing GenAI-Supported Adaptive Hypermedia for Classical Chinese Poetry Learning: Expert-Informed Design Considerations https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830852EPUB |
| William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin and Diana Maynard | Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830838EPUB |
| Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia and Stefano Traverso | TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830870EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830833EPUB |
| Meha Gupta and Akshat Joshi | The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of Interpretation https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830883EPUB |
| 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 Validatability of Large-Scale Survey Data Using 176 Algorithmically Generated Personas https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830835EPUB |
| 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 https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830855EPUB |
| Session 12: Demos | |
| Raine Revere and Jamie Blustein | Transhierarchy redux: New opportunities found in outline processors https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830840EPUB |
| Ethan Southall, Vedad Hulusic, Charlie Hargood, David John and Niall Ó Hoisin | A Collaborative Authoring Tool for Cultural Heritage in eXtended Reality https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830846EPUB |
| Kenton Taylor Howard | ReMasque of the Red Death: 1.0 Release |
| Carson Gross and Matthew Revelle | A Cost Model for Token Consumption of Hypermedia and the Model-Context-Protocol in Agentic Loops https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830851EPUB |
| Sarah Abowitz, Sasha Spala and Gregory Crane | Tompkinsia: Data-Driven Commentary Augmentation for Critical Thinking. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830877EPUB |
| Session 13: New Media & Future Perspectives + Panel | |
| David Millard | Permanently Under Construction: Hypertextual Friction in an AI-Augmented Zettelkasten https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830837EPUB |
| Mattia Thibault | Towards a Media Multiverse https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830841EPUB |
| Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta and Adit Kotwal | Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge Structures https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830860EPUB |
| Demo Session | |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | A Quizbowl Knowledge Platform |
| Frode Hegland | Origami Text as a Rich & Robust Substrate for Academic Knowledge |
| Abhik Hasnain and Adeline K. Piercy | Ether 5: Towards a Framework for Authoring Cooperative Interactive Fiction Experiences in Godot |
| Dene Grigar, Andrew Thompson, and Holly Slocum | The Virtual Archival Storytelling Environments (VASTE) |
| Saeid Khoobdel | StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities |
| Alessandro Adamou | Chaykin: Linked Data over the Small Web |
| Elisa Bastianello | Publink |
NHT Workshop
| Monday 14th, Room D109 | |
|---|---|
| 09:30-10:00 | Arrival, welcome, and introductions |
| 10:00-10:20 | Narrative Hypertext Maps Mark B 15 min presentation + 5 min for questions |
| 10:20-10:40 | Hypertextual Thinking: A Method for Resistance in David Kolb’s “Hypertext as Resistance” Dene G 15 min presentation + 5 min for questions |
| 10:40-11:00 | Quick coffee break |
| 11:00-12:15 |
Panel: Creativity, Authorship, and Audience in an AI World
Presentations, each 10-15 minutes
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| 12:15-12:30 | Closure and thanks |
SUNRISE Workshop
| Monday 14th, Room D110 | |
|---|---|
| 09:30-09:35 | Introduction and opening |
| 09:35-10:20 | Keynote: New Challenges in Information Security: AI in Information Warfare Andrew Schuman (UITM, Poland) |
| 10:20-10:40 | The AI Dilemma in the Classroom: A Case Study on Collective Student Disagreement with AI Practices Małgorzata Rataj, Iryna Berezovska, Arkadiusz Gaweł and Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała (UITM, Poland) |
| 10:40-11:00 | Hypertext as a Trust Architecture against AI-Generated Disinformation Justyna Witas and Mateusz Partyka |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:35 | Guarding the Associative Trail: Toward Epistemic Integrity and Local-First Security in AI-Augmented “Second Brains” Grzegorz Pawiński (UTIM) |
| 11:35-11:55 | Security as a Property of Hypertext Architecture: The ID-SHIELD (ID-S) Model for Soft Management of Copyright Infringement Incidents in a Digital Environment Artur Wojciechowski (UTIM) |
| 11:55-12:15 | From Visibility to Influence: A Theoretical Framework for Hypertextual Propagation of Cybersecurity Narratives Across the Public Internet Kamil Dembowski (UTIM) |
If you see anything that looks incorrect, please contact the Programme Committee (Mariusz Pisarski (m.pisarski@uw.edu.pl) or Alessandro Adamou (alessandro.adamou@biblhertz.it)) ASAP.