Call for Papers<br>
Narrative and Hypertext 2012<br>
Workshop on narrative systems<br>
<a href="http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</a><br>
To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2012 in Milwaukee<br>
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This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring<br>
together individuals from the humanities and science communities to<br>
share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from<br>
both a technical and aesthetic perspective.<br>
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Narrative is a prevalent form of information common in our<br>
entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its<br>
events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for<br>
generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to<br>
become more effective but also improve our understanding of narrative<br>
structures.<br>
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Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of<br>
knowledge allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The<br>
potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of<br>
information or discourse on the web (for example from social media)<br>
means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly<br>
disparate sources.<br>
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There is an increasingly growing community of researchers working on<br>
narrative systems, hypertext narratives, and machine readable<br>
narrative models for which this workshop seeks to act as a hub to<br>
review advances and events over the previous year as well as, looking<br>
forward to the coming year, what the field can achieve. One of the<br>
identified challenges facing this community is the difficulty of<br>
connecting creatives with technologists, which as a topic will form<br>
the centre point of discussion, along with the effect of this issue on<br>
related projects and systems.<br>
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This workshop aims to support this work, and the new research to be<br>
presented at the hypertext and narrative connections track at this<br>
year’s conference, by providing an open interdisciplinary forum of<br>
discussion on key issues facing the field. Including (but not limited<br>
to):<br>
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- Models of Narrative<br>
- Systems for the Presentation of Narratives<br>
- Adaptive and Personalised Narratives<br>
- Narrative Analysis<br>
- Narrative Generation<br>
- Narrative as a method of Knowledge Capture<br>
- Social Media as Narrative<br>
- Narrative as a lens on identity<br>
- Argumentation and Rhetoric<br>
- Interactive Fiction<br>
- Cinematic Hypertext<br>
- Authorial support systems<br>
- Novel applications of narrative systems<br>
- e-Literature<br>
- Strange Hypertext<br>
- Innovative digital narratives<br>
- Interdisciplinary collaboration on narrative<br>
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Participants<br>
Researchers and practitioners working with hypertext or narrative are<br>
invited to attend this workshop. Participants are asked to submit a<br>
short (between 2 and 5 pages ACM format) position paper on their<br>
current work. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be<br>
informed 3 weeks after the submission deadline. All the position<br>
papers of participants will be made available on the workshop website<br>
initially, and later through the ACM Digital Library.<br>
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Activities<br>
As with last year the workshop will be split into planned and<br>
serendipitous sessions. The planned sessions will comprise of<br>
presentations of work from those with selected submitted papers with<br>
time for questions and discussion after each.<br>
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The serendipitous sessions will depend on the interests of the<br>
attendees of the workshop and will function in the style of an<br>
unconference. The preceding coffee break to each serendipitous session<br>
will allow participants to put forward suggestions for discussion<br>
topics, short presentations, or demos. The organisers will then select<br>
the most popular activities suggested as the focus for that session.<br>
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Submission Details<br>
Papers should be in ACM format, be between 2 and 5 pages long and<br>
submitted as a PDF. The papers should be emailed no later than midday<br>
GMT 16th April 2012 to Charlie Hargood at <a href="mailto:cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>.<br>
Submitted papers will be refereed and notification of acceptance sent<br>
out 3 weeks later. Accepted papers will be included alongside the ACM<br>
Hypertext conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, and<br>
authors will have a week to prepare camera ready papers for submission<br>
after acceptance.<br>
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Important Dates:<br>
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- Papers Due 16th April 2012<br>
- Notification of acceptance 7th May 2012<br>
- Camera ready papers due 14th May 2012<br>
- Workshop 25th June 2012<br>
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Contact<br>
Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the organisers:<br>
Charlie Hargood: <a href="mailto:cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
David Millard: <a href="mailto:dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk">dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>