New publications at ACM Hypertext 2023

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The following new publications has been accepted at the 34th ACM Hypertext Conference (HT) 2023:

  • [1] Va.Si.Li-Lab as a collaborative multi-user annotation tool in virtual reality and its potential fields of application
  • [2] Viki LibraRy: A virtual reality library for collaborative browsing and navigation through hypertext
  • [3] News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality

Total: 3

  • [PDF] [https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609076] [DOI] G. Abrami, A. Mehler, M. Bagci, P. Schrottenbacher, A. Henlein, C. Spiekermann, J. Engel, and J. Schreiber, “Va.Si.Li-Lab as a Collaborative Multi-User Annotation Tool in Virtual Reality and Its Potential Fields of Application,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, New York, NY, USA, 2023.
    [Abstract] [BibTeX] 

    During the last thirty years a variety of hypertext approaches and virtual environments -- some virtual hypertext environments -- have been developed and discussed. Although the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies is rapid and improving, and many technologies can be used at affordable conditions, their usability for hypertext systems has not yet been explored. At the same time, even for virtual three-dimensional virtual and augmented environments, there is no generally accepted concept that is similar or nearly as elegant as hypertext. This gap will have to be filled in the next years and a good concept should be developed; in this article we aim to contribute in this direction and also introduce a prototype for a possible implementation of criteria for virtual hypertext simulations.
    @inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2023,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl\"{u}t and Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Henlein, Alexander and Spiekermann, Christian and Engel, Juliane and Schreiber, Jakob},
title = {Va.Si.Li-Lab as a Collaborative Multi-User Annotation Tool in Virtual Reality and Its Potential Fields of Application},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609076},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609076},
abstract = {During the last thirty years a variety of hypertext approaches and virtual environments -- some virtual hypertext environments -- have been developed and discussed. Although the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies is rapid and improving, and many technologies can be used at affordable conditions, their usability for hypertext systems has not yet been explored. At the same time, even for virtual three-dimensional virtual and augmented environments, there is no generally accepted concept that is similar or nearly as elegant as hypertext. This gap will have to be filled in the next years and a good concept should be developed; in this article we aim to contribute in this direction and also introduce a prototype for a possible implementation of criteria for virtual hypertext simulations.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {22},
numpages = {9},
keywords = {virtual hypertext, virtual reality, virtual reality simulation, authoring system},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609076}
}

  • [PDF] [https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609079] [DOI] S. Babbili, K. Bönisch, Y. Heinrich, P. Stephan, G. Abrami, and A. Mehler, “Viki LibraRy: A Virtual Reality Library for Collaborative Browsing and Navigation through Hypertext,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, New York, NY, USA, 2023.
    [Abstract] [BibTeX] 

    We present Viki LibraRy, a virtual-reality-based system for generating and exploring online information as a spatial hypertext. It creates a virtual library based on Wikipedia in which Rooms are used to make data available via a RESTful backend. In these Rooms, users can browse through all articles of the corresponding Wikipedia category in the form of Books. In addition, users can access different Rooms, through virtual portals. Beyond that, the explorations can be done alone or collaboratively, using Ubiq.
    @inproceedings{Babbili:et:al:2023,
author = {Babbili, Shaduan and B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Heinrich, Yannick and Stephan, Philipp and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Viki LibraRy: A Virtual Reality Library for Collaborative Browsing and Navigation through Hypertext},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609079},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609079},
abstract = {We present Viki LibraRy, a virtual-reality-based system for generating and exploring online information as a spatial hypertext. It creates a virtual library based on Wikipedia in which Rooms are used to make data available via a RESTful backend. In these Rooms, users can browse through all articles of the corresponding Wikipedia category in the form of Books. In addition, users can access different Rooms, through virtual portals. Beyond that, the explorations can be done alone or collaboratively, using Ubiq.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {6},
numpages = {3},
keywords = {virtual reality simulation, virtual reality, virtual hypertext, virtual museum},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609079}
}

  • [PDF] [https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609080] [DOI] J. Gagel, J. Hustedt, T. Lüttig, T. Berg, G. Abrami, and A. Mehler, “News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, New York, NY, USA, 2023.
    [Abstract] [BibTeX] 

    We present News in Time and Space (NiTS), a virtual reality application for visualization, filtering and interaction with geo-referenced events based on GDELT. It can be used both via VR glasses and as a desktop solution for shared use by multiple users with Ubiq. The aim of NiTS is to provide overviews of global events and trends in order to create a resource for their monitoring and analysis.
    @inproceedings{Gagel:et:al:2023,
author = {Gagel, Julian and Hustedt, Jasper and L\"{u}ttig, Timo and Berg, Theresa and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609080},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609080},
abstract = {We present News in Time and Space (NiTS), a virtual reality application for visualization, filtering and interaction with geo-referenced events based on GDELT. It can be used both via VR glasses and as a desktop solution for shared use by multiple users with Ubiq. The aim of NiTS is to provide overviews of global events and trends in order to create a resource for their monitoring and analysis.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {7},
numpages = {3},
keywords = {virtual hypertext, human data interaction, spatial computing, virtual reality simulation, geographic information systems, virtual reality},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609080}
}