HT’26

37th ACM Conference on Hypertext

London, United Kingdom · 14–18 September 2026

Imported papers

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PersonaBase: A Formative Evaluation Study of Computational Resources for Data-Driven Personas — Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

Link-Traced Amplification: How Telegram Redistributes YouTube Political Content at Scale — Mateus Brito, Ester Souza, Thiago Braga, Giordano Paoletti, Luca Vassio, Jussara M. Almeida, Leonardo Rocha

Who Changes Their Mind? Exploring Stance Shifts in LLM-Based Social Media Simulations — Valerio La Gatta, Gian Marco Orlando, Marco Perillo, Ferdinando Tammaro, Vincenzo Moscato

Permanently Under Construction — David E. Millard

Learning as Graph Traversal — Jacob Puthipiroj

Transhierarchy redux — Raine Revere, James Blustein

Towards a Media Multiverse — Mattia Thibault

ReSB²: Retrieving Similar Brazilian State Bills — Lucas Costa, Átila Souza, Elves Rodrigues, Rafael Glater, Mauricio Maia, Walter Santos, Marcelo Migueletto, Rodrygo Santos, Wagner Meira Jr., Gisele Pappa

Linked Locative Ludonarrative and Heritage Hypertext Harmonies — Bob Rimington, Jack Brett, Charlie Hargood

A Collaborative Authoring Tool for Cultural Heritage in eXtended Reality — Ethan Southall, Vedad Hulusic, Charlie Hargood, David John, Niall O'hOisin

Connected Collaborations: Remediating Immersive Reading for Mental Wellbeing through AI — Francesca Benatti, Siobhan Campbell, Alessio Antonini

The Emergence of Shared Meaning in Hypermedia Networks with No Central Gravity: The Case of Hypertext Conference 2026 — Gabo Beaumont, Mark Anderson

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: Hypertext, Note-Taking, And Tools for Thought — Mark W R Anderson

A Cost Model for Token Consumption of Hypermedia and the Model-Context-Protocol in Agentic Loops — Carson Gross, Matthew Revelle

Designing GenAI-Supported Adaptive Hypermedia for Classical Chinese Poetry Learning: Expert-Informed Design Considerations — Wenjun Liu, Zhenhao Tian, Dake Liu, Charlie Hargood

Stigma and Support in Online Sexual Violence Narratives on Reddit — Shirlene Bandela, Karan Bindal, Vaibhav Garg, Rezvaneh Rezapour

Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals — Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao

Beyond Exploration: AI-facilitated Information Visualization Structure for Complex Context Exploration and Decision-Making in Environmental Sustainability — Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao, Shih-Yi Chien

A Graded Model of Semantic Commitment for Curated Cultural Heritage Data Integration — Polina Voronova, Alessandro Adamou

Hyperlinking in VASTE Space — Dene Grigar, Andrew Thompson, Holly Slocum

The Link and the Journey: Hypertext at Civic Scale — Silas Hooper, Mark Bernstein

Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge Structures — Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Adit Kotwal

Edit-Distance Links: A Hypertextual Reading of Conditional-Tokenization World Models — Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Vineeth Kalluru, Adit Kotwal

A Reader's Workbench: Reading With Friends — Mark Bernstein

Evidence Paths: Grounding LLM-Generated Hypotheses in Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs — Nicola Raffaele Di Matteo, James Blustein

Beyond the Blue Link: Empirical Evaluation of Generative Engine Optimization in Stochastic Retrieval Systems — Manan Mehta, Raghav Sharma, Vineeth Kalluru, Adit Kotwal

From Gardens to Landscapes: a new Foundation for Hypertext in the Age of Agentic LLMs — Lucia Lupi, Sam Brooker, Riccardo Fedriga, Davide Picca, Alessio Antonini

Entropy Dynamics for Early Warning in Reuse-Based Communication Networks: Monitoring Structural Reorganization under Limited Observability — Władysław Błocki, Marcin Szewczyk, Andrzej Adamski

The XAI-Seeking Principle: Structuring Explainability for LLM-Mediated Decision Support — Valentin Grimm, Jessica Rubart, Eelco Herder, Carsten Röcker

TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training — Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia, Stefano Traverso

User Perceptions and Responses to Minority Fairness in Music Recommendations and Item Labels — Shah Noor Khan, Eelco Herder, Libio Goncalves Braz, Karlijn Dinnissen, Judith Masthoff

How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit — Aparup Khatua

Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework — Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Silva, Lucas Raniére Juvino Santos, Leandro Balby Marinho, Claudio Elizio Calazans Campelo

YouTube Discourse During the Iran Conflict and the Afghanistan Withdrawal — Arthur Buzelin, Pedro Augusto Torres Bento, Yan Aquino Amorim, Arthur Rodrigues Chagas, Virgilio Almeida, Gisele Lobo Pappa, Wagner Meira Jr.

Bridging Digital and Publishing in the Humanities: Connecting Editorial Workflows through Open Standards — Elisa Bastianello, Christopher David Tomlinson

Apprehending Hypertext — Peter Nürnberg, Astrid Ensslin, Claus Atzenbeck

Tompkinsia: Data-Driven Commentary Augmentation for Critical Thinking — Sarah Abowitz, Sasha Spala, Gregory Crane

Reconstructing Peirce's Trails of Thought: Multimodal Computational Analysis of Non-Linear Manuscript Composition — Carlo Teo Pedretti

Angry but Accurate: Detecting and Profiling the Counter-Misinformation Ecosystem on Twitter — Eun Cheol Choi, Emilio Ferrara

Hypertext Research Vademecum: Translating Experimental Systems into Conceptual Contributions — Alessio Antonini

Travel Literature as Hypertext: Definition and Case Study of AI-enabled Interactive Explorations — Virginia Orlando, Alessandro Adamou, Alessio Antonini

The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of Interpretation — Meha Gupta, Akshat Joshi

Hypertextuality of Littorals: a Gap Analysis — Alessandro Adamou, Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Sally Blackburn-Daniels, Sam Brooker, John Domingue, Derek Matravers, Carlo Teo Pedretti, Davide Picca

The Efficiency Trap: Fragmented Curricula and AI-Driven Surface Learning in Higher Education — Małgorzata Rataj, Iryna Berezovska

Spatially Arranging is Knowing: Spatial Hypertext as Method for Digital Folkloristics — Lisa Roßner, Sabine Slowik, Claus Atzenbeck, Peter Nürnberg

“It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.” — Sam Brooker, Chris Boucher

Phantom Links: Filling the Gap in Link Semantics — Mariusz Pisarski

Hypertext as the Native Architecture of Reality — Andrzej Adamski, Władysław Błocki, Mariusz Pisarski, Marcin Szewczyk

Hyperlayered Hypertext: Rethinking Human-Document Interaction with Agentic AI — Behnam Rahdari, Shriti Raj, Peter Brusilovsky

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation — Sophia Liu, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu, Sarah Sterman, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Max Kreminski

Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'26) — Claus Atzenbeck, Jessica Rubart

Knowledge Graphs and Hypertext (HTKG'26) — Robert B Allen

The Media Multiverse as Hypertext — Cansu Çetin Er, Mattia Thibault

Narrative and Hypertext (NHT'26) — Charlie Hargood, David Millard

Hypertext and Security (SUNRISE'26) — Andrzej Adamski, Mariusz Pisarski