This post is continued from two earlier parts: In Part 1 I offer a broad rationale for my position In Part 2 I offer specific recommendations for ACs and reviewers In this part, I offer my own recommendations for the research community moving forward. I stress from the outset that this is a position. I…
This post follows on from my previous post, in which I outline my position on peer reviewing and my reasoning for it. In this post, I offer four observations in the form of a guide to serving as a good Associate Chair (AC). [1] A CHI paper submission typically represents 12-24 months of a research…
HCI is continuing a trend towards using conferences, rather than journals or books, as the premier venue for published work. The speed of the submission-decision cycle often means that decisions are fast and binary: one shot and you’re in or you’re out. And in this process, a very small number of people hold a lot…
Salon has an article today about a controversy that happened recently at Print magazine, when it published a critique of Apple. The original critique is here (and has some very interesting analysis beyond its basic premise): http://printmag.com/Article/An-Anatomy-of-Uncriticism And the Salon article on the dust-up is here: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/design_critique_imprint/ One thing at stake in all this is…
Interaction Culture 