<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> <font color="#000000">The 36th ACM Hypertext conference will be held in Chicago, USA, from September 15-19, 2025. This year’s theme, “</font><strong style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The World as Hypertext,</strong><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">” aims to bring together state of the art hypertext research that not only targets the core research objectives of our community in hypertext technologies, link structures, digital humanities, and social media but seeks to understand technology, creativity, society, and scholarship through the lens of hypertext.</span> <div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </span></div> <div><font color="#000000">This year’s conference includes the following tracks for paper submissions as a long or short research paper.</font></div> <div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </span></div> <div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><font size="3">Track 1: Hyper-Systems</font></b></span></div> <div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>Infrastructure, Workflows, and Applications as Hypertext</u></b></span></div> <div><font color="#000000">Track 1 seeks </font><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">submissions on hypertextual systems (including software, workflows, and data models) or hypertextual approaches to technology. Systems papers describing novel architectures, original algorithms, innovative uses of AI and social media, or applied hypertext technology in cultural heritage, education, games, or more.</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div><b><font size="3">Track 2: Hyper-Creation</font></b></div> <div><b><u>Authorship, Media, and Readership as Hypertext</u></b></div> <div>Track 2 focuses <a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">on the creation and consumption of hypertext and hypermedia. This includes design methods and best practices for creating hypertext, technology for creating hypertext, new forms of and approaches to hypertext, and understanding the impact of all of these things on the creative process, designers, developers, readers, users, and the hypertext itself.</a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><font size="3">Track 3: Hyper-Society</font></b></a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>Communities, People, and Communication as Hypertext</u></b></a></div> <div><font color="#000000">Track 3 calls for submissions </font><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">exploring the human aspect of hypertextual systems such as social media as well as research on hypertextual structures and patterns in communities as well as the impact of hypertext on society.</a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> </a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><font size="3">Track 4: Hyper-Scholarship</font></b></a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><u>Research, Philosophy, and Academia as Hypertext</u></b></a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Track 4 will be taking submissions </a><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">on the impact of hypertext on scholarship and research, scholarly philosophies and ethics of hypertext, and new methodologies and research strategies in our community.</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Important Dates</b></font></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">April 21, 2025 – Paper submission</a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">May 30, 2025 – Notification of paper acceptance</a></div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">June 20, 2025 – Camera-ready submission</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div><a style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For submission guidelines and more information, please refer to the official website of the conference: </a><font color="#000000"><a href="https://ht.acm.org/ht2025">https://ht.acm.org/ht2025</a></font></div> </body> </html>