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 already analyzed historical data that demonstrates that we can substantially reduce reviewer workload. We’ve also created a way you can use [...]
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 margins of documents being discussed. Its original intended usage was for discussion of classroom lecture notes, [...]
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 replication, I figured it was worth testing the same procedure with this year’s review data, which [...]
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 hopes of getting some comments on it that can help us prepare our presentation. We’re also making nb available [...]
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. That’s why I was excited to see several database-oriented papers presented at CHI. While many papers contained some amount of data, [...]
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 coordinator, I got the opportunity to log the event and live-tweeted the whole thing; here are my notes. Max starting things off, with [...]
Over the course of the last year or so, I’ve been looking at the way people ask and answer questions on Facebook. Much of this work happened with the phenomenal Merrie Morris and Jaime Teevan (haystack alum!) at Microsoft Research. I’ve been interested in the ad hoc way people ask questions as their status messages [...]
can you identify what’s happening when users are searching? can you tell who are novices and who are experts? can you tell when a searcher is frustrated? what are signals for search success? – query formulation – evaluation speed – query formulation process (systematic) use of operators might mean experts. not considering experts/novices, or successes, [...]
While I’m here at CHI, I thought I’d post a bit of analysis I did of the CHI reviewing statistics. I was exploring the question of whether we really need three reviewers on every CHI submission. At the PC meeting, there was a lot of discussion of the huge amount of work that was going [...]
even though it feels like years ago, when we went to chi in atlanta last april, we saw a lot of good talks. here’s one from jilin chen at the university of minnesota, who presented on ”the effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups.” if we think about any of [...]