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Why does CHI have so many best paper awards recipients each year, when other conferences usually have 1-3? Does CHI accept an exceedingly large number of papers
by whym 6y ago
Why does CHI have so many best paper awards recipients each year, when other conferences usually have 1-3? Does CHI accept an exceedingly large number of papers? I would expect some consistency within a domain (although computer science as a domain is arguably broad and diverse).
- deepakkarki 6y agoCHI has a lot of subcategories, each subcategory has a best paper award!
- toomim 6y agoThey used to have far fewer. But over time, CHI began to include more disciplines, especially the social sciences, evaluated papers with different value systems. The technical HCI people didn't use the same values as the social scientists, for instance. Rather than try to settle a war of values, they simply increased the number of papers that were accepted, and also increased the number of best paper awards. More fundamentally, evaluating HCI research is very subjective. That means it's harder for a diverse audience to even agree on what constitutes good HCI research. Many HCI researchers have grown frustrated with the value of their research being discarded or overlooked by review committees. As a result, they tend to favor lowering the bar to entry, and accepting more papers, thinking that it's better to have false positives than false negatives.
- kgarten 6y agoI think it's the biggest academic computer science conference now with a lot of different communities and subcommittees. Every subcommittee could be considered as an individual conference ...
- thomasahle 6y agoThere is a race to the bottom happening with awards: If a community gives more awards at their conferences, their people look more impressive to grant givers and promotion comitties. Then the community grows and can hold more and bigger conferences with more prices. Prices are alright for identifying interesting talks at a conference, but you shouldn't compare them between fields.