Comments on: CHI Paper Not Accepted http://jamin.org/archives/2008/chi-paper-not-accepted/ Jamin Hegeman on design, writing, and life Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:58:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jamin http://jamin.org/archives/2008/chi-paper-not-accepted/comment-page-1/#comment-57542 Jamin Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:04:48 +0000 http://jamin.org/archives/2008/chi-paper-not-accepted/#comment-57542 I realize that CHI is trying to bring more design into the conference, which seems to be indicative of HCI's increased interest in design. However, I still argue that in general CHI and the HCI community does not get design, which I felt the feedback I got illustrated. I'm not saying that the feedback was all crap and that my paper should have been accepted (I admit it was likely weak), but CHI does not seem to be a good venue for design. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts in Savannah. See you there. ;) I realize that CHI is trying to bring more design into the conference, which seems to be indicative of HCI’s increased interest in design. However, I still argue that in general CHI and the HCI community does not get design, which I felt the feedback I got illustrated. I’m not saying that the feedback was all crap and that my paper should have been accepted (I admit it was likely weak), but CHI does not seem to be a good venue for design.

I’d love to hear more of your thoughts in Savannah. See you there. ;)

]]> By: Susan http://jamin.org/archives/2008/chi-paper-not-accepted/comment-page-1/#comment-57215 Susan Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:56:42 +0000 http://jamin.org/archives/2008/chi-paper-not-accepted/#comment-57215 I was randomly looking at people coming from IxDA on the crowd vine site and came across you blog. I spent the last few days hanging out with Jodi during her visit to GaTech and have been reminiscing about my days at CMU . Anyway, Like I said I was surfing/ procrastinating, and came across your post. Sorry your paper was not accepted, however I'd would argue that your experience isn't indicative of a broader aversion or misunderstanding of design within the CHI community. CHI has always been a crap shoot regardless of what discipline you are coming from - it is the premier conference in the field and difficult to have any kind work accepted. And yes you are right the conference does tend to celebrate positivistic research more so than that with more of s design slant. However this is changing and if you take a closer look at the work being presenting this year you will find a growing number of papers that take a more qualitative/design approach. I'll point to the one I am presenting about design fieldwork I did in Nairobi over the summer and the work of my colleagues from GaTech who are presenting ethnographic/design inspired work on technology for homelessness and eating. It would be more to talk more about this at IxDA, hope to meet you there. Cheers, Susan Wyche I was randomly looking at people coming from IxDA on the crowd vine site and came across you blog. I spent the last few days hanging out with Jodi during her visit to GaTech and have been reminiscing about my days at CMU .
Anyway, Like I said I was surfing/ procrastinating, and came across your post. Sorry your paper was not accepted, however I’d would argue that your experience isn’t indicative of a broader aversion or misunderstanding of design within the CHI community. CHI has always been a crap shoot regardless of what discipline you are coming from – it is the premier conference in the field and difficult to have any kind work accepted. And yes you are right the conference does tend to celebrate positivistic research more so than that with more of s design slant. However this is changing and if you take a closer look at the work being presenting this year you will find a growing number of papers that take a more qualitative/design approach. I’ll point to the one I am presenting about design fieldwork I did in Nairobi over the summer and the work of my colleagues from GaTech who are presenting ethnographic/design inspired work on technology for homelessness and eating.

It would be more to talk more about this at IxDA, hope to meet you there.
Cheers,
Susan Wyche

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