The 36th ACM Hypertext conference will be held in Chicago, USA, from September 15-19, 2025. This year’s theme, “The World as Hypertext,” aims to bring together state-of-the-art hypertext research that not only targets the core research objectives of our community in hypertext technologies, link structures, digital humanities, and social media but seeks to understand technology, creativity, society, and scholarship through the lens of hypertext.

This year’s conference includes the following tracks for paper submissions as a long or short research paper.

Track 1: Hyper-Systems
Infrastructure, Workflows, and Applications as Hypertext
Track 1 seeks submissions on hypertextual systems (including software, workflows, and data models) or hypertextual approaches to technology. Systems papers describing novel architectures, original algorithms, innovative uses of AI and social media, or applied hypertext technology in cultural heritage, education, games, or more.

Track 2: Hyper-Creation
Authorship, Media, and Readership as Hypertext
Track 2 focuses on the creation and consumption of hypertext and hypermedia. This includes design methods and best practices for creating hypertext, technology for creating hypertext, new forms of and approaches to hypertext, and understanding the impact of all of these things on the creative process, designers, developers, readers, users, and the hypertext itself.

Track 3: Hyper-Society
Communities, People, and Communication as Hypertext
Track 3 calls for submissions exploring the human aspect of hypertextual systems such as social media, as well as research on hypertextual structures and patterns in communities as well as the impact of hypertext on society.

Track 4: Hyper-Scholarship
Research, Philosophy, and Academia as Hypertext
Track 4 will be taking submissions on the impact of hypertext on scholarship and research, scholarly philosophies and ethics of hypertext, and new methodologies and research strategies in our community.

Important Dates
April 21, 2025 – Paper submission
May 30, 2025 – Notification of paper acceptance
June 20, 2025 – Camera-ready submission

For submission guidelines and more information, please refer to the official website of the conference: https://ht.acm.org/ht2025