Spatial Hypertext has been an important hypertext
research topic since its
inception with the first well-known spatial hypertext system, VIKI, which
appeared in 1994. Since that time a number of other spatial hypertext
systems have appeared: Web Squirrel, CAOS, and VKB, and ART, among others,
and the spatial hypertext research is widely cited. Three workshops on
spatial hypertext have been held at the past three ACM Hypertext
conferences; the variety of papers attracted by these workshops has clearly
established spatial hypertext as an ongoing area of research interest. This
year the hypertext conference has recognized the importance of spatial
hypertext by making it a conference theme; the workshop on spatial
hypertext will additionally allow researchers to present work in progress
that may not be at the stage of presentation for a full conference paper.
Spatial hypertext remains a field with many open questions and a diverse
and highly multi-disciplinary group of researchers.
Expected topics include:
- Spatial hypertext systems in progress
- User experience with spatial hypertext
- Spatial hypertext implementation issues
- Integrating spatial hypertext with other
hypertext frameworks and other
software environments generally
- Rhetoric issues posed by spatial hypertext
Goals for the workshop include:
- Surveying the state and variety of research
areas in spatial hypertext
- Providing guidance to spatial hypertext system
implementers from user
experience
- Surveying spatial hypertext for open questions
and future research
directions
- Providing a framework for broadening the reach
of spatial hypertext by
integrating it with the software environment generally
Who is this for?
Spatial hypertext system
implementers, hypertext framework integrators,
users of spatial hypertexts, writers and researchers on hypertext rhetoric
working in spatial hypertext, hypertext researchers generally interested in
alternative models of structure, researchers in structural computing.
How to participate:
Submit a position statement
by June 15 to Jim Rosenberg
(jr@amanue.com) or Frank Shipman (shipman@cs.tamu.edu). Position statements
can reflect new research in
the area of spatial hypertext or be statements of your interests in and
questions about spatial hypertext.