[comp.ivideodisc] CFP: Hypertext '91 Video Program

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.