This page is for a previous event in this workshop series, for the most recent workshop go here.

Welcome to our workshop on Narrative and Hypertext at the ACM Hypertext Conference 2011 in Eindhoven on the 6th of June at The University of Technology in Auditorium 13B.

The work accepted into the workshop has been arranged and the plan for the day made. These can be found on the new proceedings and programme pages above.

This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and science communities to share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. The workshop covers a range of topics from Hypertext Narrative Literature and Criticism, to Narrative as a Lens for Elicitation and Reflection, and an exploration of current work in Narrative Systems and models of Narrative.

The workshop itself will include a range of different sessions with presentations from authors, panel sessions facilitating discusion of key topics, and unstructured sessions to give attendees on the day the opportunity to propose discussions or sessions of interest to them.

Please note while we confirm the exact structure of the workshop notification to authors is likely to be slightly delayed. Authors should expect a decision tomorrow rather then today. We appologise for this slight delay.

The deadline for submissions to the Narrative and Hypertext workshop at Hypertext 2011 has been extended by a week. Submissions are now due by midnight at the end of Tuesday 19th April (GMT). Submissions are still 2-5 pages, ACM format, and to be sent to cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk. As a result of this extension the notification of acceptance date has also been pushed back a week.

Welcome to the site for the Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at the ACM Hypertext 2011 conference in Eindhoven. The Workshop is currently accepting paper submissions for presentations at the workshop. The workshop will be held on 6th June 2011 and submissions are due 12th of April 2011.

This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and science communities to share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective.

Narrative could be considered as the presentation of an ordered series of experiences. Understanding of narrative includes a wide range of elements including plot, theme, authorial voice, style and genre. The systems that work at constructing, presenting, or analysing these might be called narrative systems. As hypertext systems link and structure information into experiences for their users many hypertext systems could in turn be considered narrative systems.

Narratives are complex creations prevalent in our entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to become more effective but also improve our understanding of narrative structures.

Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of knowledge, allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of information or discourse on the web (for example from social media) means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly disparate sources.

The hypertext conference often has a history of publishing work related to narrative research ranging from explorations of criticism and the creation of digital narrative to authoring hypertext fiction and semantic narrative systems. This workshop offers a focus for a cross-discipline community to share research, offer solutions and contributions to the challenges faced in the study of narrative and the development of narrative systems, and offers a platform of discussion for potential collaboration for members of the hypertext community working with narrative.

The workshop seeks to discuss:

• Models of Narrative
• Systems for the Presentation of Narratives
• Adaptive and Personalised Narratives
• Narrative Analysis
• Narrative Generation
• Narrative as a method of Knowledge Capture
• Social Media as Narrative
• Narrative as a lens on identity
• Argumentation and Rhetoric
• Interactive Fiction
• Cinematic Hypertext
• Authorial support systems
• Novel applications of narrative systems
• e-Literature
• Literary Criticism