=== CALL for PARTICIPATION === HYPERTEXT 2016 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 10-13 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada Advance Registration: 17 June 2016 http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/ The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. Hypertext 2016 will take place at the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia and the major cultural centre of Canada’s Atlantic provinces and is collocated with UMAP 2016, the 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Apart from high-quality peer-reviewed papers, posters and demos, Hypertext 2016 features a creative track, a doctoral consortium and three workshops. Evening events include - apart from the social dinner and poster/demo reception, a theatre performance, a creative track exhibition, exciting presentations at the Nova Scota College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and a PowerPoint Karaoke. Our keynote speakers are: * Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder), an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was imprisoned in Tehran from 2008 to 2014. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia. * Katy Börner, an engineer, scholar, author, educator, and speaker specializing in data analysis and visualization, particularly in the areas of science and technology (S&T) studies. She will talk about Data Visualization Literacy For more details and information how to register, visit http://ht.acm.org/ht2016/ ORGANIZATION General Chairs: - Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University, Canada - Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Program Chairs: - Helen Ashman, University of South Australia - Jessica Rubart, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Germany Track Chairs: - Weigang Wang, University of Manchester, United Kingdom - David Millard, University of Southampton, United Kingdom - Herre van Oostendorp, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Creative Track: - Stacey Mason, University of California, USA Poster and Demo Chairs: - Kevin Koidl, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ben Steichen, Santa Clara University, USA Workshop Chair: - Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA Doctoral Consortium Chair: - Johan Bollen, Indiana University, USA Publicity Chairs: - Denis Parra, PUC Chile - Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------