Track Co-chairs:

• Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California, USA
• Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Track Program Committee:

• Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc, USA
• Mark Finlayson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Clare Hooper, Eindhoven University, Netherlands
• David Millard, Southampton University, UK
• Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence OFAI, Austria
• David Roberts, North Carolina State University, USA
• Reid Swanson, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Nicolas Szilas, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Emmett Tomai, University of Texas Pan American, USA

Track description:

For this track of ACM Hypertext 2012 we solicit papers describing innovative research on storytelling using new media technologies. We are particularly interested in approaches that capitalize on the connectivity between people, places, and organizations that is enabled through the world wide web, social media, and mobile computing platforms. This track is expected to include papers concerning narrative analysis, narrative generation, interactive digital storytelling, and narrative hypertext/hypermedia.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Narrative on the web and in social media
• Automated analysis of narrative text
• Interactive digital storytelling
• Automated story generation
• Location-based digital storytelling
• Collaborative storytelling technologies
• Narrative hypertext/hypermedia: writing, design,
  and engineering
• Narrative authoring tools and technologies
• Privacy and ethical issues in digital storytelling