Call for Papers: Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at ACM Hypertext 2011

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Call for Papers
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Narrative and Hypertext 2011
Workshop on Narrative Systems
http://nht11.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2011
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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 human 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.

This workshop offers a focus for this interdisciplinary 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. Topics include:

- 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

Participants
The audience for this workshop will be a mixed group of participants
from arts, science, and humanities. This will include young
researchers and PhD students from these areas using the workshop as a
platform to present initial work, members of academia and industry
contributing to the wider discussion, technical developers working on
relevant systems, and authors with an interest in related research.
Participants are asked to submit a short (between 2 and 5 pages ACM
format) paper on their current work. Authors of papers selected for
presentation will be informed 2 weeks after the submission deadline.

Activities
The workshop will be split into planned and serendipitous sessions.
The planned sessions will comprise of presentations of work from those
with selected submitted papers with time for questions and discussion
after each.

The serendipitous sessions will depend on the interests of the
attendees of the workshop and will function in the style of an
unconference. The preceding coffee break to each serendipitous session
will allow participants to put forward suggestions for discussion
topics, short presentations, or demos. The organisers will then select
the most popular activities suggested as the focus for that session.

Submission Details
Papers should be in ACM format, be between 2 and 5 pages long, and
submitted as a PDF. The papers should be emailed no later than midday
GMT 12th April 2011 to Charlie Hargood at cah...@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Submitted papers will be refereed and notification of acceptance sent
out 2 weeks later.

Important Dates

- Papers Due 12/04/2011
- Notification of acceptance 26/04/2011
- Workshop 06/06/2011

Contact
Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the organisers:
Charlie Hargood: cah...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
David Millard: d...@ecs.soton.ac.uk