The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext) is one of the oldest international conference series on the crossroads of Human-Computer Interaction and

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. The full list of conferences in the series can be found on the

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Hypertext Web page, and papers are available through the

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History

The modern ACM Hypertext conference has its roots in the US-based Hypertext (HT) conference (1987, 1989) and European Conference on Hypertext (ECHT) (1990), coming together in 1991 under the organisation of

Special Interest Group SIGLINK (renamed

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in 1998) with the name ACM Hypertext and Hypermedia. The conference has been notable for being open to literary authors and scholars in addition to computer scientists. This made it an important space for the development of early

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and

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. At the first Hypertext conference, in 1987, both the hypertext authoring system

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and one of the first works of hypertext fiction,

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, were presented in public for the first time. In the 1990s,

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and other authors of

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hosted pre-conference Hypertext Writers' Workshops that were important community-building events. The scope of the conference has been gradually expanded to include the

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and other types of information-linking systems, and in 2012 the conference changed its name to reflect this widened scope to become the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

Awards

The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media has two named best paper awards that are given out annually: the

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Best Paper Award and the

Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms ''hypertext'' and ''hypermedia'' in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms ''transcl ...

Newcomer Award.

Dataset

There is
public dataset available
of all of the submissions to the first 33 conferences.

References

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