That's a wrap on ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025 #HT2025 #HT25
Next year's Hypertext 2026 will be in London at School of Advanced Study at University of London and the British Library. #HT2026
September 8-11, 2026
The theme will be Hypertext as Method.
At #ACMHT2025 day 4, Yavuz Selim Kartal (from @gesis.org) discusses supplementing social media posts with AI-generated summaries, which are perceived as most understandable form of enrichment as compared to metadata enrichment or pull quotes. @acmht.bsky.social #HT2025
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Almost all participants in their interviews mentioned fairness in musicRecSys came down to paying the artists. Secondarily was alg. bias &popularity bias as interview insights.
Not everyone agreed that imbalance in the sys meant it was unfair. Many also wanted transparency & control.
#ACMHT2025
At Day 4 of #ACMHT2025, Karlijn Dinnissen describes the role of fairness & diversity in user choices and perception of music playlists.
* What do end users think makes a fair MusicRec sys?
* How does that impact their choices?
* How should they be informed?
#HT2025
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Ágnes Horvát highlights in her @acmht.bsky.social keynote that the frequency of certain words in PubMed abstracts has drastically increased due to authors massaging their texts with LLMs. #HT2025 #ACMHT2025
@eastgate.bsky.social describes resurrecting Information Cities at #NHT25 as a narrative, a journey toward understanding, a central theme in open world games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk 2077 #ACMHT2025 #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social
@drchargood.bsky.social kicks off Hypertext '25 (@acmht.bsky.social) Day 3 w/ the Narrative & Hypertext Workshop #NHT25, a venue for both those new to HT and established projects. Scheduled are 3 paper presentations, a panel, and a debate. #ACMHT2025
nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/2025/program...
They utilized the timestamp of a tweet to estimate the time that a tweet has been archived. They then established left & right time boundaries to limit search space to make resolving captured tweets from the web archive more efficient.
@tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
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1. Reconstruct a tweet URL based on the embedded parameters in a tweet 2. Search @archive.org. Web archives are most useful when the Tweet (or account) is no longer on the live web. - @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
Another reason fake tweets are shared is for satire. 100k likes and no comments is suspicious. How can you tell it's real? Web archives serve as a good src of evidence that it's real. Their goal is to build an automated method for evidence that a tweet is authentic @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social
Dominik Soós from @webscidl.bsky.social asks "Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News?" Their contribs inc. benchmarks & findings, new dataset w/ 362 article triplets, & a novel method to improve perf on open-weight LLMs #ACMHT2025
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In his #ACMHT2025 talk, Mariusz Pisarski asks the questions about Google's AI integration into their search UI stating that research shows that users largely don't click on results at all, but instead rely on the provided summaries.
Paper 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Hashing the first few letters and having a linear search is a perfectly reasonable data structure and works well for a collection of thousands, probably better than a full sort.
- @eastgate.bsky.social @ @human-ht.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
@eastgate.bsky.social @ @human-ht.bsky.social:The problem w/ dealing w/ lots of stuff: there's always more to read & more questions to pursue. Even in antiquity, we have people that used thousands of srcs. Ancient collections assume readers want multiple tellings & read against them. #ACMHT2025
At @human-ht.bsky.social at #ACMHT2025: @eastgate.bsky.social describes historical compression: We want to compress messages, because every bit is expensive. When your bits are inscribed in stone, they are really expensive.
One tablet had very bad handwriting then tooth marks on the back side.
Words per pope: Andrezej Adamski discusses the inter-pope sentiment of popes in time at the HUMAN workshop (@human-ht.bsky.social ) at #ACMHT2025. Takeaway: phrases track the media environment of each era.
How would hypertext help for census date resolution? Cathy Marshall discusses in her @human-ht.bsky.social keynote at #ACMHT2025, "It's important to be able to back out records when Ruth isn't Paul's bio mother & that all her records should be deprecated. The cost for link-making is high and noisy."
At the HUMAN workshop ( @human-ht.bsky.social ) at Day 2 of ACM Hypertext, Cathy Marshall gives the keynote with a story about John Tukey looking data at large while she was close reading the data (i.e., observing microwaved Ivory soap) #ACMHT2025
Enjoyed Alexander Petros proposing to bake in some features of HTMX into the HTML spec, namely to extend it to support more hypermedia controls. #ACMHT2025
Check out, "The Missing Mechanic: Behavioral Affordances as the Limiting Factor in Generalizing HTML Controls":
doi.org/10.1145/3720...
Another Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) workshop is in the books as we completed the 2025 iteration at ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025
Did you miss it? See the papers and soon slides and recorded video:
🔗 wadlworkshop.github.io
Photo credit: Tarannum Zaki
Check out their paper, "Student Use of Commentaries with Inline Reference Resolution" at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #ACMHT2025
At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
