In Search of the Elusive CHI Design Paper

Fresh out of this year’s CHI paper committee meeting, we thought it might be helpful to share a few reflections from the Design subcommittee about what we found. We had time for a group discussion in the hotel meeting room we had shared over a long two days, discussing and debating which papers to accept from well over one hundred submissions...Our hope, in sharing our observations, is to encourage and reassure designers wanting to submit to CHI, to suggest to reviewers what they should look for in submissions, and, in the end, to continue to improve the quality of design papers at the conference.