HUMAN’25 is the eighth workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. It has a strong focus on human factors, combining user-centric hypertext and artificial intelligence (AI) to create intelligent hypertext systems.
The user-centric view on hypertext not only includes user interfaces and interaction, but also discussions about hypertext application domains. 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.
The HUMAN’25 workshop will be held hybrid, that is, taking place in Chicago and being streamed via Zoom. For further information, see the workshop website and follow us on Mastodon or Bluesky.
SCOPE
Historically, hypertext is strongly connected to human factors. This can be experienced by the early work provided by hypertext pioneers, such as Doug Engelbart or Ted Nelson. However, recent research trends have shadowed this in parts. Therefore, this workshop combines original hypertext ideas with recent hypertext research trends. Furthermore, it tries to consolidate different hypertext areas by looking at those from the viewpoint of human factors.
HUMAN also encourages submitting work that has an interdisciplinary perspective. It targets both scientists and developers from various research and business areas who consider a critical and open-minded discussion of original hypertext ideas with the goal of identifying and solving today’s hypertext challenges.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
- Systems for augmenting human intellect
- User-centric hypertext systems
- User interfaces and interactions
- Cognitive aspects and hypertext
- Collaborative hypertext and social media
- Information structuring
- Hypertext used for human communication
- Hypertext and decision-making
- Spatial hypertext
- Annotation services
- Organizing information
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Centered Information Systems
- eXplainable AI in hypertext
- VR or AR environments for hypertext
- Information structuring in digital humanities
- User perspectives in adaptive hypertext
- Social aspects of humans using hypertext
- Intercultural aspects in hypertext
SUBMISSION
All papers must be original and may not be published, submitted, and/or currently under review elsewhere. Each submission will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner.
Accepted submission types:
- long paper
- short paper
- position paper
Papers must follow the workflow for ACM publications – see also the HUMAN’25 website for details. Short papers max. 4 pages, long papers max. 8 pages (2-columns, excluding references).
We are also accepting discussion or position papers up to 2 pages (2-columns, excluding references).
Paper templates can be found on the HT’25 call for research papers page:
https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/call-for-papers/submission-instructions/
For submission details, please refer to the HUMAN’25 website.
All accepted papers presented at the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library.