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

Welcome to the workshop on Narrative and Hypertext at the ACM Hypertext Conference 2012 in Milwaukee on the 25th June at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Room Lapham 252 in Lapham Hall. Lapham hall can be found at the following address: 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211

The work accepted into the workshop has been arranged and the plan for the day made. These can be found on the 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 Narrative Systems, to Digital Expression.

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

The deadline for submissions to the Narrative and Hypertext workshop at Hypertext 2012 has been extended by three days. Submissions are now due by midday Thursday 19th April (GMT). Submissions are still 2-5 pages, ACM format, and to be sent to cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Also, so that workshop publications may be included with other conference materials the deadline for camera ready papers and notification of acceptance has been brought forward 4 days. New dates are all updated in the page side bar.

Welcome to the site for the Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at the ACM Hypertext 2012 conference in Milwaukee. The Workshop is currently accepting paper submissions for presentations at the workshop. The workshop will be held on 25th June 2012 and submissions are due 16th April 2012.

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. It follows on from the very successful narrative workshop event at HT2011 (the largest workshop in the conference) which kick-started a number of collaborations and subsequent meetings (for example, see the websites strangehypertext.org and fractalnarratives.org). This year’s workshop will principally build upon these previous successes, and aims to consolidate this fledgling community.

Narrative is a prevalent form of information common 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.

There is an increasingly growing community of researchers working on narrative systems, hypertext narratives, and machine readable narrative models for which this workshop seeks to act as a hub to review advances and events over the previous year as well as, looking forward to the coming year, what the field can achieve. One of the crucial conclusions of the previous year was focussed on the difficulty of connecting creatives with technologists, which as a topic will form the centre point of this year’s discussion, along with the effect of this issue on related projects and systems.

The hypertext conference 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 aims to support this work, including the hypertext and narrative connections track at this year’s conference, by providing an open interdisciplinary forum of discussion on key issues facing the field.

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
• Strange Hypertext
• Innovative digital narratives
• Interdisciplinary collaboration on narrative