Tools for Supporting Social Structures

Hypertext and hypermedia are technologies for supporting structured knowledge work. The Seventeenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Tools for Supporting Social Structures (HT 2006) will focus specifically on tools that help us represent, model and interact with social structures, including cultural, literary, linguistic, and other types of social structures. Recently, in fields ranging from anthropology to linguistics, there has been an increasing focus on representing complex social phenomena using networks or other structure-intensive models. HT 2006 will bring together social scientists with hypertext and hypermedia researchers who specialize in building tools to build, manipulate, and manage structure-intensive models.

The conference will take place in the Radisson SAS H.C. Andersen Hotel in Odense, Denmark. The hotel is located within the central part of Odense, with easy access to several tourist attractions and the historic pedestrian walking areas of the old city. The conference hotel has extended our attendees a special nightly rate of 850 DKK, which includes breakfast and free wireless internet access. Odense, birthplace of legendary storyteller H.C. Andersen, is one of the most beautiful cities in Denmark. With its nearly 200,000 inhabitants, it is Denmark's third largest city. Located in the middle of the country, Odense is easily reachable by air, rail, and car.

ACM Hypertext 2006 will be co-located with WikiSym 2006. WikiSym 2006 will take place from August 21-23, 2006. There will be a joint workshops day shared between ACM Hypertext 2006 and WikiSym 2006. The two events will also have a joint conference dinner and share a keynote speaker on August 23, 2006.

ACM Hypertext 2006 is being held in co-operation with ACM SIGCAS.