HUMAN'23: 6th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext
Jessica Rubart (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Höxter, Germany) and Claus Atzenbeck (Hof University, Institute for Information Systems, Hof, Germany)
Published in HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media · DOI: 10.1145/3603163.3610576 · License: © Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
Authors: Jessica Rubart, Claus Atzenbeck
Keywords: adaptive hypertext, annotation, augmentation, cognitive aspects, collaboration, communication, decision making, digital humanities, human factors, human-centered AI, hypermedia, hypertext, information structuring, information systems, intercultural aspects, scientific community, user interaction, user interfaces, user-centric
Session: Workshops & Tutorials: Workshops
Conference: HT '23
Abstract
HUMAN 2023 is the 6th workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext conferences. The HUMAN workshop has a strong focus on the user and thus is complementary to the strong machine analytics research direction that could be experienced in previous conferences.
The user-centric view on hypertext not only includes user interfaces and interaction, but also discussions about hypertext application domains as well as human-centered AI. Furthermore, the workshop raises the question of how original hypertext ideas (e.g., Doug Engelbart's “augmenting human intellect” or Jeff Conklin's “hypertext as a computer-based medium for thinking and communication”) can improve today's hypertext systems.
1 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP 1.1 Background and topics
Historically, hypertext is strongly connected to human factors. This can be experienced by the early work provided by hypertext pioneers, such as Doug Engelbart or Ted Nelson. However, recent research trends have shadowed this in parts. For example, data science or artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in the context of hypertext that are relevant to the HUMAN workshop shall take into account the human factor. Therefore, this workshop combines
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Claus Atzenbeck Hof University Institute for Information Systems Hof, Germany claus.atzenbeck@iisys.de
original hypertext ideas with recent hypertext research trends. Furthermore, it tries to consolidate different hypertext areas by looking at those from a human factors viewpoint. HUMAN also encourages to submit work that has an interdisciplinary perspective. It targets both scientists and developers from various research and business areas who consider a critical and open-minded discussion of original hypertext ideas and aim at identifying and solving today’s hypertext challenges. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
• Systems for augmenting human intellect • Human-centered information systems • Human-centered AI • eXplainable AI in hypertext • User interfaces and interactions • VR or AR environments for hypertext • Cognitive aspects and hypertext • Collaborative hypertext and social media • Hypertext used for human communication • Hypertext and decision making • Information structuring • Spatial hypertext • Annotation services • Organizing information • Information structuring in digital humanities • User perspectives in adaptive hypertext • Social aspects of humans using hypertext • Intercultural aspects in hypertext
1.2 Relevance of the workshop to 2023 ACM Hypertext Conference
HUMAN has many connections to the 2023 Hypertext Conference. It fosters discussions about different hypertext domains and, more importantly, it explicitly combines original hypertext research ideas with recent hypertext research trends. Human factors are present in all tracks of Hypertext 2023. Thus, this workshop fosters crosscutting discussions and the development of new ideas.
1.3 Previous editions of the workshop series
The previous HUMAN workshops took place at the following locations or virtually, always in conjunction with or affiliated with the ACM Hypertext and Social Media conference. In addition, their proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library:
(1) HUMAN’18: at the 2018 ACM Hypertext in Baltimore, MD, USA; https://human.iisys.de/human18/ [1]
(2) HUMAN’19: at the 2019 ACM Hypertext in Hof, Germany; https://human.iisys.de/human19/ [2]
(3) HUMAN’20: virtual; affiliated with the virtual 2020 ACM Hypertext in Orlando, FL, USA; https://human.iisys.de/human20/ [3]
(4) HUMAN’21: at the virtual 2021 ACM Hypertext in Dublin, Ireland; https://human.iisys.de/human21/ [9]
(5) HUMAN’22: at the 2022 ACM Hypertext in Barcelona, Spain; https://human.iisys.de/human22/ [4] The proceedings of HUMAN 2023 will be published in the ACM Digital Library as well.
1.4 Peer Review and Program Committee
As in the past years, submissions to the HUMAN workshop get peer reviewed. This year the following researchers serve on the program committee:
• Valentin Grimm, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
• Robert Mertens, Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg, Germany • Siegfried Reich, Salzburg Research, Austria • Thomas Schedel, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
• Manolis Tzagarakis, University of Patras, Greece • Martin Vesely, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Uffe Kock Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
1.5 Invited Talks
To provide food for thought and encourage discussions, HUMAN workshops include invited talks. Last year, for example, Luc Beaudoin, co-founder of CogSci Apps Corp., CogZest and Somnolence+ as well as adjunct professor of Cognitive Science and of Education at Simon Fraser University, talked about “On Applying Integrative Design-Oriented Cognitive Science to Hypertext: A Framework for Cognitive Productivity” [5]. Sean Haas, software developer and independent historian, presented “Doug Engelbart, Edge Notched Cards, and Early Links” [8]. Finally, Ben Shneiderman, an Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983–2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and a Member of the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland, argued from his book on “Human-Centered AI” [10] with respect to ensuring human control while increasing automation [11]. HUMAN 2023 as well will include thought provoking invited talks to foster discussions and strengthen the output of the workshop.
2 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Both workshop organizers have a strong hypertext background and are long-term contributing members of the hypertext research community. Furthermore, they are actively involved in SIGWEB and jointly served as general co-chairs for the 30th ACM Hypertext
Conference in Hof, Germany.
Dr. Jessica Rubart (https://tinyurl.com/bizis-en-jrubart) is professor for business information systems at the OstwestfalenLippe (OWL) University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. She has a strong industry background as software architect, project manager, system analyst, and software developer. Her main research areas are human-centered intelligent information systems, hypertext, groupware and knowledge management as well as software engineering. She is an active member of the Hypertext community for years. She has been program co-chair of Hypertext and Hypermedia 2006 as well as Hypertext and Social Media 2016. Together with Dr. Claus Atzenbeck she was general co-chair of the 30th anniversary ACM Hypertext Conference in Hof, Germany.
Dr. Claus Atzenbeck (https://iisys.de/ca) is a professor at Hof University, Germany, and heads the Visual Analytics research group at the university’s Institute for Information Systems. His research interests in hypermedia include spatial and navigational structures, spatial and temporal parsing for spatial hypertexts, and component-based hypertext systems. A special focus of his work is on intelligent user interfaces. Together with Dr. Jessica Rubart he was general co-chair of the 30th anniversary ACM Hypertext Conference in Hof, Germany.
References
[1] Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (Eds.). 2018. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’18). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3215611
[2] Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (Eds.). 2019. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’19). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3345509
[3] Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (Eds.). 2020. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’20). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3406853
[4] Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (Eds.). 2022. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’22). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3538882
[5] Luc P. Beaudoin. 2022. On Applying Integrative Design-Oriented Cognitive Science to Hypertext: A Framework for Cognitive Productivity. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (Barcelona, Spain) (HUMAN ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3538882.3542791
[6] Jeff Conklin. 1987. Hypertext: an introduction and survey. Computer 20, 9 (1987), 17–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.1987.1663693
[7] Douglas C. Engelbart. 1962. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Summary Report AFOSR-3233. Standford Research Institute. http: //dougengelbart.org/content/view/138
[8] Sean Haas. 2022. Doug Engelbart, Edge Notched Cards, and Early Links. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (Barcelona, Spain) (HUMAN ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 3, 1 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3538882.3542792
[9] Jessica Rubart and Claus Atzenbeck (Eds.). 2021. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’21). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3468143
[10] Ben Shneiderman. 2022. Human-Centered AI. Oxford University Press. [11] Ben Shneiderman. 2022. Human-Centered AI: Ensuring Human Control While Increasing Automation. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (Barcelona, Spain) (HUMAN ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3538882.3542790
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