ACM Hypertext 2025 – REMINDER: Call for Late Breaking and Blue Sky Papers

[Lisa Eidloth]

ACM Hypertext 2025 – REMINDER: Call for Late Breaking and Blue Sky Papers

Chicago, USA, September 15-19, 2025

Track Chairs: Prof. David Millard (University of Southampton) and Dr. Ben Steichen (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

Late Breaking Results

We encourage researchers and practitioners to use this track as a valuable opportunity to receive useful feedback on early-stage work and foster discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We look forward to receiving:

• Innovative research plans and preliminary results;
• Descriptions and/or evaluations of system prototypes addressing the theory and practice of topics to the hypertext community;
• Essays introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results.

Blue Sky Papers

In cooperation with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC, https://cra.org/ccc/), we invite submissions to a special “Blue Sky Ideas” track. The emphasis of this track will be on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in research that are outside the current mainstream topics of the field. We want to overcome the constraints of the traditional review process by incubating innovative approaches, risky and provocative ideas, and propose challenges and opportunities in the near future. We are particularly excited about ideas that address the conference theme of “The World as Hypertext.”

To encourage researchers to present truly visionary concepts, the CCC is offering prizes for up to 3 top blue sky papers in this special track: first prize $1000, second prize $750, and third prize $500, to be awarded as travel grants. Submissions will be judged on the extent to which they expand the possibilities and horizons of the field or challenge existing assumptions prevalent in the field.

Important Dates (AoE)

June 06, 2025 – Paper submission

July 04, 2025 – Notification of paper acceptance

July 18, 2025 – Camera-ready submission

Important note on attendance: Due to recent travel advisories from some countries, the organizing committee has decided to shift the conference to a hybrid format, allowing for remote presentations if the presenters have difficulties with travel restrictions or VISA applications.

For submission guidelines and more information, please refer to the official website of the conference: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025