oren@apple.com (Tim Oren) (02/13/91)
Call for Participation: Hypertext '91 Video Program The Hypertext '91 (HT '91) conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas on December 15-18, 1991. For the first time the conference will include a video program, a compilation of juried videos to be shown continuously during the conference. The video program will also be published as an issue in the ACM SIGGRAPH video review. This presents an opportunity for formal publication of hypermedia and multimedia works which have been difficult to make available to the research community due to the limits of print. Hypertext systems provide computer support for locating, gathering, annotating, and organizing information. Hypertext systems are being built to handle information in diverse media types, hence the alternate name, hypermedia. Hypertext is by nature multi-disciplinary, involving researchers in many fields, including computer science, cognitive science, human interface, design, rhetoric and education, as well as many application domains. HT '91 is an international research conference on hypertext and hypermedia sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. The ACM Hypertext Conference occurs in the United States in alternation with ECHT, the European Conference on Hypertext. The conference will offer technical events in a variety of formats. The program will include paper sessions, panels, technical briefings, live demonstrations, a full day of courses, and a poster session in addition to the video program. For further conference information or a copy of the general call for participation, contact the conference or program chairs as given below. The HT '91 video program will be appropriate for demonstrations that would be difficult to show live due to hardware constraints, for illustrating concepts that are hard to describe verbally, or for presenting prototypes or work in progress. Video may also be appropriate for hypertext systems whose individual features are not unique, but whose total effect is a significant advance. The video program is specifically meant to be a medium of record for work which is difficult to document in print. Video submissions should be 5 to 15 minutes in length, although there is no absolute limit. Lengthy submissions will be judged more stringently for value of content and production quality. We will not edit your tape; please be concise. The HT '91 video program will be juried. The primary criteria will be novelty of the concepts illustrated and value to conferees of the overall demonstration. Tapes may be rejected for poor production quality, commercial rather than technical or scientific treatment, or if they are simply too boring to watch. If the system shown is a prototype, the video itself should clearly indicate its status. The HT '91 video program jury comprises: Gregory Crane, Harvard University Abbe Don, In Context Michael Naimark, Independent Designer Jakob Neilsen, Bellcore Tim Oren, Apple Computer (chair) Amy Pearl, Sun Microsystems Max Whitby, The Multimedia Corporation (U.K.) Kathy Wilson, Bank Street College Nicole Yankelovich, Brown University Elise Yoder, Knowledge Systems Short biographies of the jury members are given at the end of this posting. Submissions Submit one copy of a tape. 3/4 inch Umatic tapes are preferred. 1/2 inch VHS or 8mm formats will also be accepted, but may result in lower visual quality. NTSC format (used in North America and Japan) is strongly preferred, but PAL (used in most of Europe) will also be accepted. Please clearly indicate format on the submission. A rough cut and/or full shooting script, with final program length indicated, will be considered but judged more stringently. Each submission should be accompanied by a one page description with full credits, for inclusion in the conference literature. A primary contact person should be designated. Indicate the final format which will be delivered for production. Scripts or tapes must be postmarked by April 12, 1991. Final tapes for production must be received by September 30, 1991. The video chair may summarily reject final tapes whose length or content differ significantly from those indicated in a rough cut or script. Submit to: Tim Oren Apple Computer 20525 Mariani Ave., MS 76-2C Cupertino, CA 95014 USA voice: 408 974-3345 fax: 408 974-9793 e-mail: oren@apple.com Conference Information For general program information, or to be added to the HT '91 mailing list, send electronic mail to: ht91@bush.tamu.edu, or contact: John J. Leggett, General Chair Hypertext '91 Conference Hypertext Research Lab Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 USA voice: 409 845-0298 fax: 409 847-8578 e-mail: leggett@bush.tamu.edu Janet H. Walker, Program Chair Hypertext '91 Conference Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Lab One Kendall Square, Bldg 700 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA voice: 617 621-6618 fax: 617 621-6650 e-mail: jwalker@crl.dec.com Video Program Jury Gregory Crane is an Associate Professor of Classics at Harvard University and since 1985 has been Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project, a large Hypermedia database being developed on Ancient Greece. He has previously built a multi-lingual full text retrieval system for a large database of Greek literature, and has also published in the classics literature on Greek poetry from the 8th through the 3rd century BC. Abbe Don is an interactive multimedia artist and interface design consultant. Her interactive video "We Make Memories" explores the relationship between narrative and new media as it simulates the way her great-grandmother told stories. Her current piece "Share a Story" enables museum visitors to add their own family stories and photographs to an evolving multimedia portrait. She was also a member of the "Guides" design team at Apple Computer. Michael Naimark is an independent interactive media artist. He was a principal designer and cinematographer of the MIT "Aspen Moviemap," the seminal work in the use of interactive videodiscs for mapping spaces. Since then Michael has movie-mapped Paris from the sidewalk for the Paris Metro and San Francisco from the air for the Exploratorium. Jakob Nielsen is a user interface researcher at Bellcore. He is the author of the book "Hypertext and Hypermedia" (Academic Press 1990) and on the editorial board of the Hypermedia journal. Tim Oren is manager of the Information Access group within Apple Computer's Advanced Technology laboratory. Among the group's recent projects is "Guides," an experiment in anthropomorphic representation of agency and narrative in an educational hypermedia. Tim was also a principal designer of the "Electronic Whole Earth Catalog." He is acting secretary of ACM SIGLINK. Amy Pearl is a member of the research staff at Sun Microsystems, where she works in the areas of digital video and computer supported conferencing. Amy was an architect of the SunLink hypertext link server. Max Whitby is Director of Production at the London-based MultiMedia Corporation, where he heads development of the MediaMaker authoring tool. During a ten year affiliation with the BBC, he has produced programs for NOVA, Horizon and Antenna, and has just completed Hyperland, a dramatised documentary about the future of interactive television. In addition to his production activities, Max teaches multimedia design at the Royal College of Art. Kathleen S. Wilson is Multimedia Director at Bank Street College's Center for Children and Technology and Director of Design and Production at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for the Museum Education Consortium. She has designed and produced "Palenque," a digital video interactive prototype for children, the "Mimi I" videodisc prototype, and a HyperCard-based "Design Scrapbook." Nicole Yankelovich is a founding member of Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) where she has been Project Coordinator and principal user interface designer. Her work includes designing major portions of the Intermedia hypermedia system. Nicole has also served as the editor for ACM Press' HyperCard stackware "Hypertext on Hypertext." Elise Yoder is president of Knowledge Workshop, a hypertext publishing and consulting company. She is currently building a hypertext-based compendium of computer science literature for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Elise was among the developers of the ZOG hypertext system at Carnegie Mellon, and the KMS system at Knowledge Systems.