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CALL FOR PAPERS
HUMAN'26 - 9th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext

Official workshop of the ACM Hypertext Conference '26
Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB * 14/15 Sep 2026 * London, UK
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Social media hashtag: #HUMAN26
Workshop website: https://human.iisys.de/human26/


** INTRODUCTION

HUMAN'26 is the nineth workshop of a series for the ACM Hypertext
conferences. It is sponsored by SIGWEB and affiliated with the
37th ACM Conference on Hypertext. It has a strong focus on human
factors combining user-centric hypertext and artificial intelligence
(AI) to create intelligent hypertext systems.

The user-centric view on hypertext not only includes user interfaces
and interaction, but also discussions about hypertext application
domains. Furthermore, the workshop raises the question of how original
hypertext ideas (e.g., Doug Engelbart's "augmenting human intellect" or
Frank Halasz' "hypertext as a medium for thinking and communication")
can improve today's hypertext systems.

The HUMAN'26 workshop will be held hybrid, that is, taking place in
London and being streamed via Zoom. For further information see the
workshop website and follow us on Mastodon or Bluesky.


** SCOPE

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. Therefore, this workshop combines original
hypertext ideas with recent hypertext research trends. Furthermore, it
tries to consolidate different hypertext areas by looking at those from
the viewpoint of human factors.

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 with the goal of identifying
and solving today's hypertext challenges.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- Systems for augmenting human intellect
- User-centric hypertext systems
- User interfaces and interactions
- Cognitive aspects and hypertext
- Collaborative hypertext and social media
- Information structuring
- Hypertext used for human communication
- Hypertext and decision making
- Spatial hypertext
- Annotation services
- Organizing information
- Human-Centered Information Systems
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- eXplainable AI in hypertext
- Large Language Models in human-centered hypertext systems
- VR or AR environments for hypertext
- Information structuring in digital humanities
- User perspectives in adaptive hypertext
- Social aspects of humans using hypertext
- Intercultural aspects in hypertext


** SUBMISSION

All papers must be original and may not be published, submitted, and/or
currently under review elsewhere. Each submission will be peer reviewed
in a double-blind manner.

Accepted submission types:

- long paper (between 5 and 10 pages, 2-column, excl. references)
- short paper (max. 4 pages, 2-column, excl. references)
- position paper (max. 2 pages, 2-column, excl. references)

Papers must follow the ACM publication workflow.

General submission instructions and paper templates can be found on
the HT'26 call for research papers page:
https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/open-calls/submission-instructions/

All accepted papers presented at the workshop will be published
in the ACM Digital Library.


** IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: July 19, 2026 (AOE)
Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2026 (AOE)
Camera ready papers due: August 16, 2026 (AOE)
Workshop: September 14 or 15, 2026


** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the organizers:

Prof. Dr. Claus Atzenbeck
Institute for Information Systems, Hof University, Germany
E-Mail: claus.atzenbeck@iisys.de
Mastodon: @clausatz@hci.social -- https://hci.social/@clausatz
Bluesky: @clausatz.bsky.social -- https://bsky.app/profile/clausatz.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atzenbeck/

Prof. Dr. Jessica Rubart
OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
E-mail: jessica.rubart@th-owl.de
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicarubart/