Workshop: 7. Hyped-Media to Hyper-Media: Toward Theoretical Foundations of Design, Use and Evaluation

N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University

The rate of creation of hypermedia information has far outpaced developments in the theory of how to design hypermedia to best facilitate users' comprehension of, and navigation within, the information being presented. Despite (or perhaps, because of) the commercial success of these systems, their design had largely been guided by common sense and intuitions rather than theory. In this context, the theme of the workshop is emerging theoretical foundations of design, use and evaluation of interactive visualization, multimedia and hypermedia systems.

Topics Include

• Computational models
• Cognitive models of interacting with hypermedia
• Comprehension models of extracting and integrating information from multimedia components
• Hypermedia learning models
• Design guidelines derived from formal analyses or empirical investigations
• Models for predicting browsing and navigation patterns
• Theoretical and experimental approaches to evaluating hypermedia systems.

Two kinds of electronic submissions (HTML files) are solicited:

• Long papers on the development or application of theoretical models, surveys of different approaches or position papers on the workshop's topic.
• Short statements with relevant prior research.

Invitations to participate will be issued based on a review of submissions. We will be looking for innovative theories, integrative approaches, promising works in progress and the potential to stimulate discussion. We expect to invite no more than 20 participants.

More information is available at http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/vi3rg/ws.html.

Contact
N. Hari Narayanan
Computer Science & Engineering Department
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849 USA
Tel: +1 334 844 6312
Email: narayan@eng.auburn.edu