CHI in Hawaiʻi
Thank you very much for reading this text. We want you to know that we hear the people who have reached out to us and we are listening. Let us begin by saying that we are deeply saddened by the devastating wildfires that have brought tragedy and loss of life to Maui. That is why we implore the CHI community to rally behind the people of Maui and extend their support to organizations that aid. There are many organizations you can support. Here are some of our favorites as starting point for you to make your own decision. Continue reading
Help to Support Maui Fire Relief
We are heartbroken by the tragic wildfires that caused devastation and loss of life in Maui and Lāhainā. Thousands evacuated, and many families have lost so much. We urge the CHI community to help those in Maui, Hawaiʻi, by supporting organizations aiding the first responders and neighbors working to help. Continue reading
CHI’24 Updates to the R&R Process
CHI’23 made significant progress in smoothing the R&R process down to a single track (removing the two tiers of acceptance), and bringing the reviewer pool workload of Revise and Resubmit to be more manageable, whilst giving more authors the chance to improve their paper through the revise and resubmit process (49%) (rather than just speculating about change in a rebuttal). However, there were still some pain points and things we learned:
- we are experiencing significant paper bloat, with nothing incentivising concise shorter papers and nothing penalizing sloppy, unedited text;
- the review period was too short and created unnecessary stress;
- the workload especially around the December holiday period in many parts of the world was too tight to properly protect people's vacation time; and
- the overall number of papers going to R&R created a large drain on the reviewer pool, and most papers at threshold point were not accepted despite author effort to revise.