Note on Virtual Conference Program Structure: Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will take place on moderated Zoom calls, with recordings available to registrants following the event. All time zones listed are in the host’s time zone: Eastern Daylight Time. Please make sure to convert your session’s listed time to your time zone when saving the date.
For full abstracts and program details, click here. Use the Conference Navigator (linked) to plan your schedule and learn more about the sessions. A brief summary follows:
Program Overview
| Monday, July 13th | 9:15am – 9:45am | Welcome Session |
| (All times EDT) | 10:00am – 11:00am | Session 1: Hypertext Literature |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Plenary: Noah Wardrip-Fruin | |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Session 2: Hypertext Games + DH | |
| 2:30pm – 3:45pm | Session 3: Web and the Society – I | |
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm | Session 4: Users and Web Search | |
| 5:15pm – 6:00pm | Blue Sky Ideas – I | |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Exhibit / Social on Discord | |
| Tuesday, July 14th | 9:00am – 9:45am | Poster Session 1 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Session 5: Web and the Society – II | |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Plenary: Stuart Moulthrop | |
| 1:00pm – 1:45pm | Session 6: Hypertext Infrastructures + UI | |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Session 7: Recommender Systems | |
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm | SIGWEB Town Hall | |
| 5:15pm – 6:00pm | “Happy Hour” on Discord | |
| 3:00pm-6:00pm | Tutorial: Machine Learning | |
| Wednesday, July 15th | 9:00am – 10:00am | Blue Sky Ideas – II |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Poster Session 2 | |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Plenary: Safiya Noble | |
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm | ELO Joint Event: Afternoon traversal | |
| 3:00pm – 4:30pm | Session 8: Social Media Analysis | |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm |
Session 9: Recommender Systems + Narratives
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| 6:16pm – 7:00pm | Awards Ceremony |
Session Listings
| Session 1: Hypertext Literature | |
| Sofia Kitromili, James Jordan and David Millard | What Authors Think about Hypertext Authoring |
| Alessio Antonini and Samuel Brooker | Mediation as Calibration: A Framework for Evaluating the Author/Reader Relation |
| Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti and Sally Blackburn-Daniels | On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2 |
| Session 2: Hypertext Games and Digital Humanities | |
| Ray Eddy, Carissa Baker, Robert Macy, John Murray and Anastasia Salter | Hacking Droids and Casting Spells: Locative Augmented Reality Games and the Reimagining of the Theme Park |
| Gabriel Dzodom, Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman | Keeping People Playing: The Effects of Domain News Presentation on Player Engagement in Educational Prediction Games |
| Rosemary Michelle Simpson | Augustine as “Naturalist of the Mind” |
| Session 3: Web and the Society – I | |
| Anna Kawakami, Khonzodakhon Umarova, Dongchen Huang and Eni Mustafaraj | The ‘Fairness Doctrine’ lives on? Theorizing about the Algorithmic News Curation of Google’s Top Stories |
| Mainack Mondal, Denzil Correa and Fabricio Benevenuto | Anonymity Effects: A Large-Scale Dataset from an Anonymous Social Media Platform |
| Siva Charan Reddy Gangireddy, Deepak P, Cheng Long and Tanmoy Chakraborty | Unsupervised Fake News Detection: A Graph-based Approach |
| Michael Paris and Robert Jäschke | How to assess the exhaustiveness of longitudinal web archives |
| Session 4: Users and Web Search Interactions | |
| Luyan Xu, Xuan Zhou and Ujwal Gadiraju | How Does Team Composition Affect Knowledge Gain of Users in Collaborative Web Search? |
| Suppanut Pothirattanachaikul, Takehiro Yamamoto, Yusuke Yamamoto and Masatoshi Yoshikawa | Analyzing the Effects of “People also ask” on Search Behaviors and Beliefs |
| Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok | Towards Personalized Annotation of Webpages for Efficient Screen-Reader Interaction |
| Session 5: Web and the Society – II | |
| Silvia Basile, Cristian Consonni, Matteo Manca and Ludovico Boratto | Matching User Preferences and Behavior for Mobility |
| Flavio Figueiredo, Felipe Giori, Guilherme Soares, Mariana Vieira Siqueira de Arantes, Fabricio Benevenuto and Jussara Almeida | Understanding Targeted Video-Ads in Children’s Content |
| Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood and Andrew Blick | Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians |
| Session 6: Hypertext Infrastructures and User Interfaces | |
| Behnam Rahdari, Peter Brusilovsky and Dmitriy Babichenko | Personalizing Information Exploration with an Open User Model |
| Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Henlein, Attila Kett and Alexander Mehler | Text2SceneVR: Generating Hypertexts with VAnnotatoR as a Pre-processing Step for Text2Scene Systems |
| Session 7: Recommeder Systems | |
| Shabnam Najafian, Daniel Herzog, Sihang Qiu, Oana Inel and Nava Tintarev | You do not decide for me! Evaluating Explainable Group Aggregation Strategies for Tourism |
| Kun Lin, Nasim Sonboli, Bamshad Mobasher and Robin Burke | Calibration In Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems: A User-Centered Analysis |
| Naieme Hazrati, Mehdi Elahi and Francesco Ricci | Simulating the Impact of Recommender Systems on the Evolution of Collective Users’ Choices |
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| Session 8: Social Media Analysis | |
| Jasabanta Patro and Pushpendra Singh Rathore | A sociolinguistic route to the characterization and detection of the credibility of events on Twitter |
| Chen Ling, Guangmo Tong and Mozi Chen | NesTPP: Modeling Thread Dynamics in Online Discussion Forums |
| Yuxiang Ren, Lin Meng and Jiawei Zhang | Scalable Heterogeneous Social Network Alignment through Synergistic Graph Partition |
| Reyhaneh Abdolazimi, Shengmin Jin and Reza Zafarani | Noise-Enhanced Community Detection |
| Session 9: Recommender Systems and Narratives | |
| Toktam Amanzadeh Oghaz, Ece Mutlu, Jasser Jasser, Niloofar Yousefi and Ivan Garibay | Probabilistic Model of Narratives Over Topical Trends in Social Media: A Discrete Time Model |
| Ladislav Peska and Peter Vojtas | Off-line vs. On-line Evaluation of Recommender Systems in Small E-commerce |
| Lukas Eberhard, Simon Walk and Denis Helic | Tell Me What You Want: Embedding Narratives for Movie Recommendations |
| Blue Sky Ideas – I | |
| Claus Atzenbeck and Daniel Roßner | Thoughts Reflection Machine |
| David Millard | Games/Hypertext |
| Frode Hegland | Addressing the Skies of the Future of Text |
| Blue Sky Ideas – II | |
| Kenton Howard | Learning about Queer Representation through Mods: Reviewing Past Challenges and Outlining Ideas About Future Approaches |
| Mark Anderson | Docuverse Despatch: Information Farming For The Collective |
| Mark Bernstein | Bad Character: Who do we want our hypertexts to be? |
| Mehdi Elahi, Reza Hosseini, Mohammad Hossein Rimaz, Farshad Bakhshandegan Moghaddam and Christoph Trattner | Visually-Aware Video Recommendation in the Cold Start |
| Poster Session – I | |
| Cameron Tolentino and Matthew Mosher | Kurios: A Web App for Saving and Sharing Audio Memories with Physical Objects |
| Christopher Odom | The Narrative of the Image |
| Eelco Herder, Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck | Hypertext as a Tool for Exploring Personal Data on Social Media |
| Hanae Hmimid and Matthew Mosher | Date the Artist |
| Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain and Benjamin D. Horne | What is BitChute? Characterizing the “Free Speech” Alternative to YouTube |
| Poster Session – II | |
| Ninareh Mehrabi, Thamme Gowda, Fred Morstatter, Nanyun Peng and Aram Galstyan | Man is to Person as Woman is to Location: Measuring Gender Bias in Named Entity Recognition |
| Rachel Winter, Steve Scheinert, Mel Stanfill, Anastasia Salter, Olivia Newton, Jihye Song, William Rand, Stephen Fiore and Ivan Garibay | A Taxonomy of User Actions on Social Networking Sites |
| Roshni Chakraborty, Ritwika Das and Nilotpal Chakraborty | Predicting Links in Signed Networks through GAN based Framework |
| Stanley Yip, Bob Zeleznik, Samuel Wilkins, Tyler Schicke and Andries van Dam | Dash: A Hyper Framework |
| Szymon Olewniczak, Tomasz Boiński and Julian Szymański | Towards Extending Wikipedia with Bidirectional Links |