Hyperstructure 2005: Workshop on Narrative, Musical, Cinematic and Gaming Hyperstructure To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2005, Salzburg, Austria =================================================================== This workshop will bring together researchers working with media that has a high level of structural arrangement, for example: narrative, music, rhetoric, cinema and games (structures that are effected by rules about the syntactic and semantic arrangement of content at a relatively high level of abstraction). Media types, such as text, music and video, contain complex layers of structure and meaning, and this is also true of dynamic constructs such as games. In classical rhetoric we might use the word Dispositio to describe this multi- layered, high-level structural organisation. In the Hypertext community the term Hyperstructure has many of the same connotations. Hyperstructure might have to be considered when linking to or from media of these forms, to either prevent a disruption of the existing structures or to augment them. Systems dynamically generating these types of media need to reproduce sensible hyperstructures in order to achieve effectiveness and authenticity. The research community is still exploring the ways in which authoring and viewing applications might support dispositio like structural arrangement and expose it in some meaningful way so that it can be explicitly authored, used or reasoned about. While the media and the form varies, the methods are often common; such as the use of schemas, logic-rules or semantic annotation. This workshop will be a unified forum where people researching computer support of dispositio-like hyperstructures, whatever the form, can discuss and contrast their approaches. Topics include: * representation of hyperstructure (a media's structural form) * hypertext concepts applied in authoring such hyperstructures * new applications of hyperstructure in physical environments/ubiquitous systems * hypertext navigation of the forms and the semantics of interaction * hypertext aspects of information discovery and retrieval of these forms * digital libraries of these types of media * supporting fiction and the creative arts * the effects of style or genre * dispositio concepts applied to hypertexts * use of arranged media (such as music) in hypertexts * hypertext and performance arts involving the forms, e.g. dance * hypermedia applications in media education domains (e.g. cinematography) * computer generated media, e.g. dynamic presentations * hypertext systems issues, e.g. working with temporal media * live recording and reuse Participants ------------ The workshop is open to both researchers and practitioners working with hypermedia systems and/or the structural forms themselves. We intend this to be a discussion workshop, thus participation is by submission of a short position paper (of two to five A4 pages). In case there are more submissions than feasible for a one-day workshop those contributions most appropriate to the workshop theme will be selected for presentation. The proceedings will then be published as a Technical report from the Electronics and Computer Science Department, University of Southampton, UK. Activities Planned ------------------ The workshop is to be organised by splitting it into sessions. Sessions will consist of a number of brief paper presentations followed by discussion. A closing session will summarise the outcome of the workshop and determine any further activities to be performed. Submission Details & Authoring Guidelines ----------------------------------------- Submit your workshop or position paper not later than 29th July, 2005 encoded as PDF or HTML via e-mail to David Millard (dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk). Submitted papers will be refereed; after your presentation at the workshop you will have the possibility to update your paper and submit a final version. Important Dates --------------- * Position and Workshop papers due 29th July, 2005 * Notification of acceptance 12th August, 2005 * Position papers available at the web site 26th August, 2005 * Workshop date 6th September, 2005 * Final version of paper due 14th October, 2005 Organisers ---------- David Millard is a Senior Research Fellow in the Intelligence Agents Multimedia group at the University of Southampton in the UK.He has a background in contextual and adaptive open hypermedia systems and is interested in the way that dynamic hypertext could support narrative. Professor David De Roure is a founding member of the Intelligence Agents Multimedia group at the University of Southampton in the UK. He has used music as a case study in several hypertext systems and applications, reported in Hypertext 2002. Jacco van Ossenbruggen is a post doctorate researcher with the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction theme at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include synchronized multimedia (SMIL) on the Semantic Web and the automatic generation of user- tailored hypermedia presentations. Matthew Dovey works at Oxford University in the UK and has been involved in various XML, WebService, GridService, metadata and library standards. He currently leads an OASIS Technical Committee on musical notation. He was part of the OMRAS (Online Music Retrieval and Searching) project and has worked on a number of XML standards, and also on music notation editors. Mike Fraser is a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Bristol. He has a background in novel technologies to support social interaction (including distributed, mobile, ubiquitous and mixed reality systems) and is also involved in the VidGrid e-Social Science project, which is developing grid-based systems to support and extend current video analysis practices. Contact: -------- David Millard Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK email: dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk Other Links ----------- Hypermedia and the Semantic Web Workshop Homepage http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dem/workshops/ht05/ ACM Hypertext 2005 http://www.ht05.org