22 Sept : ACM Hypertext Annotated Bibliography Debrief

Debrief of last week’s ACM Hypertext Conference testing. AI: Summary This meeting was primarily a debrief session following Mark Anderson and Dene Grigar’s successful user testing of their XR knowledge environment at the ACM Hypertext Conference in Chicago. They tested 14 participants over several days, gathering valuable feedback about user interactions with their spatial hypertext… Continue reading 22 Sept : ACM Hypertext Annotated Bibliography Debrief

15 September: Spatial Thought

Themed discussion with a presentation by Frode Hegland, who also moderates today. AI: Summary This meeting focused on spatial thinking in XR environments, specifically addressing how to manage and manipulate knowledge objects in three-dimensional space. Frode Hegland presented a framework distinguishing between knowledge objects (useful in themselves) and volumes (collections that can be broken down… Continue reading 15 September: Spatial Thought

8 Sept : Tess Rafferty

A professional writer, television producer and avid reader, Tess will share her vision for how she wants to interact with VR as a writer, reader and viewer. Frode Hegland, Dene Grigar, Tess Rafferty, Tom Haymes, Ken Perlin, Brandel Zachernuk, Mark Anderson, Rob Swigart, Peter Wasilko, Jonathan Finn, Fabien Benetou, Ayaskant Panigrahi, Jimmy Sixdof AI: Summary… Continue reading 8 Sept : Tess Rafferty

1 September : Patrick Lichty

AI: Summary This Future of Text meeting on September 1, 2025, focused on Patrick Lichty’s presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. Patrick then delivered an extensive presentation tracing his work from early hypertext experiments in the 1990s through contemporary XR projects, exploring concepts like spatial text, embodied cognition, and haptic… Continue reading 1 September : Patrick Lichty

25 August

AI: Summary This was a Future of Text meeting focused on discussing what comes next after the current Sloan Foundation funded project exploring text in XR environments. The meeting featured presentations on potential applications of VR for writers and entertainment, discussions of philosophical commentary systems, mixed reality teaching tools, and collaborative document management. Key themes included the need for better tools for… Continue reading 25 August

Future of Text Symposium ’25

The event is an invitation only event held in London, in person, We expect we will have a live feed on Zoom, like we had last year however. The Future of Text ’25

Challenges of Designing Textual Knowledge Interactions For XR

Themed discussion with a presentation by Frode Hegland, moderated by Fabien Bénétou. In XR, neither our foveal vision nor our field of view increases. What increases is our ability perceive depth based on head movement, to move around three dimensional knowledge objects, and to move around in knowledge spaces. Affordances change by letting us change… Continue reading Challenges of Designing Textual Knowledge Interactions For XR

August 4th : Alexandra L. Martin

Laboratoire 1P1 | An Interdisciplinary XR Infrastructure This presentation introduces the 1P1 Lab at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) as an infrastructure for the experimentation of extended realities. Currently under construction, the Lab will house a large isomorphic space allowing for the exploration, documentation, and analysis of extended reality experiences with groups of… Continue reading August 4th : Alexandra L. Martin

August 4th : Alexandra L. Martin

Alexandra Martin’s research centers on digital and organic networks of communities and the question of communal memory. Alexandra employs an ecocritical approach to her research and curatorial work, emphasizing the experiential process of reading or consuming digital art and the transformative power of this process over physical and digital spaces.