Eating our own Crowdfood
Recently the CHI workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation got some press courtesy of Jim Giles and New Scientist. Near the end of the workshop, the working group on Future Directions and...
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CHI 2011′s RepliCHI Panel
This past week at CHI, our very own Michael Bernstein participated in a panel discussion about the role of replication and reproduction in the CHI community. Thanks to Max Wilson, the panel...
View ArticleThere Are Bad Systems Papers
There’s a lot of discussion about the right way to evaluate and support systems research in SIGCHI. Maybe too much. (I’m allowed to say that because I contributed to it, right?) But for this to be a...
View ArticleDatabase papers at CHI
There is little I like more than a fine cheese and fresh-baked bread. Still, to fill the rest of my day without expanding my waistline, I go for a mix of databases and human-computer interaction....
View ArticleForums in the Document Margins for Classes and Reading Groups
This year at CHI we’ll be presenting a paper on nb, a tool that lets students have forum-style threaded discussions in the margins of pdf documents. We’ve posted it in advance at the link above in...
View ArticleAllocating CHI reviewers, a sequel
Last year I used an analysis of CHI review data to argue that we could save a lot of reviewers’ time on low quality papers by modiyfing our review process. With all the current talk of the value of...
View ArticleFor CHI 2012: Discussion Forums in the Document Margins
Would you like some feedback on your CHI paper? We’ve set up a site to let people read and comment on it. On Wednesday at CHI, we’ll be presenting our paper on nb, a discussion forum situated in the...
View ArticleTo improve the CHI conference, would you share which talks you attended?
I’m having a great time at CHI (including my first time two-stepping today) but I strongly believe, as Jonathan Grudin asserted today, that we can make use of data to improve the conference. I’ve...
View ArticleAllocating CHI Reviewers, 2014 Edition
As is now an annual tradition, I’ve performed my analysis of the allocation of reviewers for this year’s CHI conference. The data from the CHI review process suggests that we can reduce the number of...
View ArticleMailing Lists: Why Are They Still Here, What’s Wrong With Them, and How Can...
Online group discussion has been around almost as long as the Internet, but it seems we still can’t create tools for it that satisfy everyone. Starting with the first mailing list in 1972 and evolving...
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