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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 →

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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:

1. we are experiencing significant paper bloat, with nothing incentivising concise shorter papers and nothing penalizing sloppy, unedited text;
2. the review period was too short and created unnecessary stress;
3. 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
4. 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.

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