Claus Atzenbeck

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Research

[ Degrees ] - [ Current Positions ] - [ Interests ] - [ SIGWEB Interviews ] - [ Publications ]

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Magister Artium (M.A.) in Information Science, German Language and Literature, and Speech and Communication, University of Regensburg, Germany

Current Positions and Memberships

• Professor for Visual Analytics at Hof University
• Head of the Visual Analytics Research Group at the Institute of Information Systems (iisys)
• ACM SIGWEB Executive Committee Member
• General Co-Chair of the 30^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
• Co-Organizer of the Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN) workshop series

Interests

• Visual Analytics, in particular the use of hypertext as a means for interaction
• Various structure domains, such as spatial, navigational, taxonomic, or argumentative structures
• Temporal aspects in spatially represented knowledge structures
• Multitouch and touchless (sensor-based) human–computer interfaces
• Hyperfiction structures and interfaces
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Knowledge work (esp. collaboration support) in the fields of counterterrorism and police investigations
• Social applications
• Personal Information Management
• e-Learning
• Information visualization and metainformation creation
• Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Knowledge Management and its application in different domains
• Open hypermedia systems

ACM SIGWEB Interviews

As ACM SIGWEB's Interviews Coordinator I conduct frequent interviews with well-known researchers in the fields of hypertext, the Web, and Document Engineering. Here is a list of previously published interviews: Peter J. Nürnberg, Uffe K. Wiil, Wendy Hall, Mark Bernstein, Frank Shipman, Cathy C. Marshall, George P. Landow, David Brailsford, Ian Horrocks, Kaj Grønbæk, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Peter Brusilovsky, Manolis Tzagarakis, Jill Walker Rettberg, Peter King, Frank Tompa, Ethan Munson, Simon Harper, Markus Strohmaier, Dirk Riehle, David Millard, Ken Anderson, Jessica Rubart, David Hicks, Bebo White, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Munmun De Choudhury, Yeliz Yesilada, Jamie Blustein, Eelco Herder, Dick Bulterman, Helen Ashman, Niels Olof Bouvin, Stacey Mason (by Mark Bernstein), Paul De Bra, Peter Dolog, Leslie Carr, Andy van Dam, Siegfried Reich, Dongwon Lee, Dene Grigar, Ben Shneiderman, Belinda Barnet, Anastasia Salter, John Barber, Beat Signer, Norman Meyrowitz, Charlie Hargood, Federica Cena, Luc Beaudoin, Mark Anderson, Sam Brooker, Alessio Antonini, Christian Wachter, Mariusz Pisarski, Matthias Müller-Prove, Astrid Ensslin, upcoming: TBA.

Publications

You can also find all publications of the Visual Analytics research team (since 2013) in Hof University's CRIS.

2024

• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck and Sam Brooker. Narrative co-creation with SPORE: a spatial hypertext based narrative recommender system. In: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, pages 1–20. Taylor & Francis, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck. Unwinding AI's Moral Maze: Hypertext's Ethical Potential. In: Proceedings of the 35^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'24), pages 23–28. ACM, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Lisa Eidloth and Claus Atzenbeck. PAIRWISE – From Spatial Structure to Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 35^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'24), pages 208–216. ACM, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Lisa Eidloth. Harnessing Hypertext Paradigms to Augment VR Spaces. In: Proceedings of the 7^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'24), article 5, pages 1–10. ACM, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Lisa Eidloth, Claus Atzenbeck and Thies Pfeiffer. Stepping into the Unknown: Immersive Spatial Hypertext. In: Proceedings of the 7^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'24), article 4, pages 1–7. ACM, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 7^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'24). ACM, 2024.
  Open Access: [DOI]

2023

• Sam Brooker and Claus Atzenbeck. Of Spheres and SPORES: Propp's Spheres of Actions and Spatial Hypertext-Based Recommender Systems. In: Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Narrative and Hypertext (NHT'23), article 6, pages 1–2. NHT, 2023.
  Open Access: [PDF]
• Eelco Herder and Claus Atzenbeck. Feedback Loops and Mutual Reinforcement in Personalized Interaction. In: Personalized Human-Computer Interaction, pages 153–172. De Gruyter, 2023.
  [DOI], [Preprint]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Dene Grigar and Manolis Tzagarakis. Interdisciplinary Teaching Toward the Next Generation Hypertext Researchers. In: Proceedings of the 34^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'23), article 43, pages 1–5. ACM, 2023.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Sam Brooker and Daniel Roßner. Storytelling Machines. In: Proceedings of the 6^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'23), article 4, pages 1–9. ACM, 2023.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck and Sam Brooker. SPORE: A Storybreaking Machine. In: Proceedings of the 34^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'23), article 1, pages 1–6. ACM, 2023.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Johannes Wirth, Daniel Roßner, René Peinl and Claus Atzenbeck. SPORENLP: A Spatial Recommender System for Scientific Literature. In: Proceedings of the 19^th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology (WEBIST'23), pages 429–436. SciTePress, 2023.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Eelco Herder and Daniel Roßner. Breaking the routine: spatial hypertext concepts for active decision making in recommender systems. In: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, pages 1–35. Taylor & Francis, 2023.
  [DOI], [Preprint]
• Jessica Rubart and Claus Atzenbeck (eds). Proceedings of the 6^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'23). ACM, 2023.
  [DOI]

2022

• Claus Atzenbeck, Mark Bernstein and Sarah Diefenbach. Emotional Closeness by Means of Intelligent Thoughts and Memory Spaces. In: Proceedings of the 33^rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'22), pages 232–235. ACM, 2022.
  [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck and Tom Gross. The Effects of Spatial Visualization versus Ranked Lists on Quality, Time Efficiency, and Interaction. In: Proceedings of the 33^rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'22), pages 132–142. ACM, 2022.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Jae-Sook Cheong and Claus Atzenbeck. From maintenance in industry to bibliographic data: spatial hypertext as communication medium between user and machine. In: Proceedings of the 5^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'22), article 6, pages 1–9. ACM, 2022.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Lisa Eidloth, Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck. User study on link-service usage and information processing in the context of the World Wide Web. In: Proceedings of the 5^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'22), article 4, pages 1–9. ACM, 2022.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 5^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'22). ACM, 2022.
  [DOI]

2021

• Claus Atzenbeck and Jaesook Cheong. International Teaching and Research in Hypertext. In: Proceedings of the 32^nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'21), pages 271–276. ACM, 2021.
  Open Access: [DOI] (publication + presentation video)
• Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck. Demonstration of Weblinks: A Rich Linking Layer Over the Web In: Proceedings of the 32^nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'21), pages 283–286. ACM, 2021.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck, and Tom Gross. Spatial Layout versus List Layout: A Comparative Study. In: Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT'21), vol. 12936 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 495–498. Springer, 2021.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter Nürnberg and Daniel Roßner. Synthesising Augmentation and Automation. In: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, vol. 27, no. 1–2, pages 177–203. Taylor & Francis, 2021.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Jessica Rubart and David Millard (eds). New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Special Issue of HT'19 Selected Papers), vol. 27, no. 1–2. Taylor & Francis, 2021.
  [URI]
• Jessica Rubart and Claus Atzenbeck (eds). Proceedings of the 4^th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'21). ACM, 2021.
  [DOI]

2020

• Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 3^rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'20). ACM, 2020.
  [DOI], [Presentations on YouTube]
• Eelco Herder, Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck. Reflecting on Social Media Behavior by Structuring and Exploring Posts and Comments. i-com 19:3 (2020) 239–250.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck and Daniel Urban. Weblinks: Augmenting Web Browsers with Enhanced Link Services. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'20), pages 1–5. ACM, 2020.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Eelco Herder, Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck. Structuring and Exploring User Behavioral Patterns in Social Media Traces. In: C. Hansen, A. Nürnberger and B. Preim (eds). Proceedings of the Mensch und Computer Conference, Workshop on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence (UCAI’20). GI, 2020.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Daniel Roßner. Thoughts Reflection Machine. In: Proceedings of the 31^st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'20), pages 117–121. ACM, 2020.
  → Blue Sky Best Paper Award (2^nd place)
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck. The Future of Text is Fragmented. In: Frode A. Hegland (ed.): The Future of Text, vol. 1, pages 106–107. Future of Text Publishing, 2020.
  [DOI]
• Eelco Herder, Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck. Hypertext as a Tool for Exploring Private Data on Social Media. In: Proceedings of the 31^st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'20), ACM, 2020.

2019

• Claus Atzenbeck and Peter J. Nürnberg. Hypertext as Method. In: Proceedings of the 30^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'19), pages 29–38. ACM, 2019.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck and Tom Gross. Visualization of the Relevance: Using Physics Simulations for Encoding Context. In: Proceedings of the 30^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'19), pages 67–76. ACM, 2019.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Susanne Purucker, Claus Atzenbeck and Daniel Roßner. Intelligent Hypertext for Video Selection: A Design Approach. In: Proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'19), pages 19–26. ACM, 2019.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, David Millard and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 30^th Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'19). ACM, 2019.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 2^nd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'19). ACM, 2019.
  [DOI]

2018

• Claus Atzenbeck, Daniel Roßner and Manolis Tzagarakis. Mother – An Integrated Approach to Hypertext Domains. In: Proceedings of the 29^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'18), pages 145–149. ACM, 2018.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck. Spatial Hypertext for End-User Development Tools. In: Proceedings of the 1^st Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'18), pages 9–15. ACM, 2018.
  Open Access: [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and Jessica Rubart (eds). Proceedings of the 1^st Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN'18). ACM, 2018.
  [DOI]

2017

• Claus Atzenbeck, Thomas Schedel, Manolis Tzagarakis, Daniel Roßner and Lucas Mages. Revisiting Hypertext Infrastructure. In: Proceedings of the 28^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'17), pages 35–44. ACM, 2017.
  → Nominated for the Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award
  Open Access: [DOI]

2016

• Thomas Schedel and Claus Atzenbeck. Spatio-Temporal Parsing in Spatial Hypermedia. In: Proceedings of the 27^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'16), pages 149–157. ACM, 2016.
  [DOI]

2013

• Claus Atzenbeck, Mark Bernstein, Marwa Ali Al-Shafey and Stacey Mason. TouchStory: combining hyperfiction and multitouch. In: Proceedings of the 24^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'13), pages 189–195. ACM, 2013.
  [DOI]

2011

• Claus Atzenbeck, David L. Hicks, and Nasrullah Memon. Supporting Reasoning and Communication for Intelligence Officers. In: Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO), Special Issue on Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining (OSINT-WM), 8(1/2), 2011.
  [DOI]
• Fatih Ozgul, Claus Atzenbeck, Ahmet Çelik, and Zeki Erdem. Incorporating data sources and methodologies for crime data mining. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI'11), pages 176–180. IEEE Computer Society, 7 2011.
  [DOI]
• Fatih Ozgul, Claus Atzenbeck, and Zeki Erdem. How much similar are terrorists networks of Istanbul? In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), pages 468–472. IEEE Computer Society, 2011.
  [DOI]
• Fatih Ozgul, Ahmet Çelik, Claus Atzenbeck, and Zeki Erdem. Specific similarity measure for terrorist networks: How much similar are terrorist networks of Turkey? In Proceedings of the Intelligence and Security Informatics Pacific Asia Conference (PAISI'11), vol. 6749 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 15–26. Springer, 2011.
  [DOI]
• Fatih Ozgul, Ahmet Çelik, Claus Atzenbeck, and Nadir Gergin. Investigating terrorist attacks using CDR data: A case study. In Uffe Kock Wiil, editor, Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence, vol. 2 of Lecture Notes in Social Networks, pages 343–354. Springer, 2011.
  [DOI]

2010

• Claus Atzenbeck, Oana Dini, Michael Hitson, Borka Jerman-Blazic (editors). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW). IEEE Computer Society, 2010.
  [IEEE Xplore]
• Fatih Ozgul, Zeki Erdem, Chris Bowerman, and Claus Atzenbeck. Comparison of feature-based criminal network detection models with k-cores and n-clique. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2010. In press.
  [DOI]

2009

• Claus Atzenbeck, Fatih Ozgul, and David L. Hicks. Linking and organising information in law enforcement investigations. In: Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'09), 443–449. IEEE Computer Society, 2009.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, David L. Hicks, and Nasrullah Memon. Supporting Emergent Knowledge and Team Communication in Police Investigations. In: Proceedings of the Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (ISI), pages 95–100. IEEE Computer Society, 2009.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck and David L. Hicks. Integrating Time Into Spatially Represented Knowledge Structures. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW'09), pages 34–42, IEEE Computer Society, 2009.
  → Best Paper Award
  [DOI]

2008

• Claus Atzenbeck and David L. Hicks. Socs: Increasing social and group awareness for wikis by example of Wikipedia. In: Procceedings of the International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) Porto, Portugal 2008.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, David L. Hicks, and Nasrullah Memon. Emergent structure and awareness support for intelligence analysis. In: Ebad Banissi et al., editors, Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV'08), pages 326–332. IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
  [DOI]

2007

• Claus Atzenbeck, Petra Deger. Representation of social networks from an actor's point of view (abstract). In: Sunbelt XXVII – International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, 8^th European Social Network Conference, page 29, 2007.
  [HTML (Abstract)]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Manolis Tzagarakis. Criteria for Social Applications. In: Vania Dimitrova, Manolis Tzagarakis, and Julita Vassileva, editors, SociUM: Adaptation and personalization in social systems: groups, teams, communities. Workshop proceedings in conjunction with the 11^th international conference on User Modeling, pages 45–49, 2007.
  [PDF]

2006

• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter J. Nürnberg. Structural Analysis for the Knowledge Management Domain. In: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Journal 12 (2006) 191–216.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck. WildDocs – Investigating Construction of Metaphors in Office Work. PhD thesis, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2006. (ISBN: 87-7606-014-4)
  [PDF]

2005

• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter J. Nürnberg. Constraints in Spatial Structures. In: Proceedings of the 16^th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Salzburg, Austria. ACM Press, 2005; pp. 63–65.
  [DOI]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter J. Nürnberg. WildDocs – Emerging Metainformation Support. In: Proceedings of the 5^th I-KNOW Conference 2005, Graz, Austria. J.UCS Conference Proceedings, 2005; pp. 286–293.
  [PDF]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter J. Nürnberg. Looking Beyond Computer Applications: Investigating Rich Structures. In: Uffe K. Wiil (ed.), Proceedings of the Metainformatics Symposium 2004, Salzburg, Austria; vol. 3511 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2005; pp. 51–65.
  [DOI]

2004

• Claus Atzenbeck, Peter J. Nürnberg. Approaching Structure Interoperability. In: Proceedings of I-KNOW '04. 4^th International Conference on Knowledge Management, Graz, Austria. J.UCS Conference Proceedings, 2004; pp. 269–278.
  [PDF]
• Claus Atzenbeck, Uffe K. Wiil, David L. Hicks. Toward a structure domain interoperability space. In: David L. Hicks (ed.), Proceedings of the Metainformatics Symposium 2003, Graz, Austria, vol. 3002 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2004; pp. 60–71.
  [PDF]

2003

• Claus Atzenbeck, Uffe Kock Wiil, David L. Hicks, Peter J. Nürnberg. Investigating Structure Domain Interoperability. In: Proceedings of the 3^rd Workshop on Spatial Hypertext at the 14^th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Nottingham, England, 2003.
  [PDF]
• Claus Atzenbeck. THORN – The Onomastic Research Network. In: Marii Biolik (ed.). Metodologia Badań Onomastycznych, 2003; pp. 128–135. (= Proceedings of the XIII Ogólnopolska Konferencja Onomastyczna, Olsztyn, Poland, 2002).
  [PDF]

2002

• Claus Atzenbeck. THORN. Exemplarische Modellierung eines Informationssystems für die Namenforschung. Master Thesis, Universität Regensburg, 2002.
  [Errata] [PDF]

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