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How to write CHI papers

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Lennart Nacke, Ph.D., Director of the HCI Games Group at the University of Waterloo, hosts this writing podcast and provides fresh insights and collects experts' perspectives into the process of writing research papers in the field of human-computer interaction, specifically targeted at the CHI conference. Every episode, he tackles different areas of the CHI paper writing process and collects helpful tips that you can apply in your own research writing. With the advice collected here, Dr. Nacke hopes to make your research writing life a little easier.

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Canada

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Lennart Nacke, Ph.D., Director of the HCI Games Group at the University of Waterloo, hosts this writing podcast and provides fresh insights and collects experts' perspectives into the process of writing research papers in the field of human-computer interaction, specifically targeted at the CHI conference. Every episode, he tackles different areas of the CHI paper writing process and collects helpful tips that you can apply in your own research writing. With the advice collected here, Dr. Nacke hopes to make your research writing life a little easier.

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@acagamic

Language:

English


Episodes
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Episode 10 - Interview with Jacob Wobbrock

8/31/2021
In our tenth episode, I finally get to meet up with Jacob Wobbrock, a Professor of human-computer interaction (HCI) in The Information School and, by courtesy, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He was one of the people that inspired me to teach the first version of this course. The interview is full of fantastic tips for writing CHI papers, Jake's personal writing process, what it takes to get cited, lots of great anecdotes,...

Duration:00:31:13

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Episode 9 - Interview with Munmun De Choudhury

8/28/2021
In this episode, my guest is Munmun De Choudhury, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Munmun has a fantastic track record and high impact in citations, worked countless service hours for the CHI community, and because of her work in the health field, she has many good tips that put the human first in any CHI paper project right from the first brainstorm.

Duration:00:22:52

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Episode 8 - Interview with Elisa Mekler

8/26/2021
Elisa Mekler, Assistant Professor at Aalto University shares some profound paper writing strategies and tips about reviewing CHI papers. She dips into her wealth of experience of writing award-winning papers and chairing papers tracks. In addition, she talks about her mentoring approach to her own students for writing CHI papers.

Duration:00:26:07

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Episode 7 - Interview with Kathrin Gerling

8/25/2021
Kathrin Gerling, Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, talks about her experiences as papers and subcommittee chair in the SIGCHI world. In our interview, we explore strategies for publishing papers at CHI and she gives some excellent tips for junior Ph.D. students looking to get published.

Duration:00:27:56

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Episode 6 - Interview with Kasper Hornbæk

5/14/2021
In this interview from 2017 with Kasper Hornbæk, who has won on IJHCS’s most cited paper award 2006-2008, talks about his writing process in good detail. He answers the important questions about finding a good research direction and taking it from idea to manuscript. I hope you enjoy this interview.

Duration:00:25:07

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Episode 5 - Interview with Vero vanden Abeele

5/13/2021
In this interview with Vero Vanden Abeele, papers chair of CHI PLAY 2017 and 2018, we discuss the writing practices that have contributed to her success in writing research papers for CHI and other conferences. I hope you enjoy this interview.

Duration:00:27:51

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Episode 4 - Interview with Regan Mandryk

5/12/2021
In this interview with Regan Mandryk, chair of CHI 2018, we dive deep into the writing practices that have made her a successful author for the conference. Take away some tips and tricks from her prolific writing structure and learn how to bring the 'boom'. I hope you enjoy this interview.

Duration:00:39:51

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Episode 3 - Interview with Jofish Kaye

5/12/2021
In this interview with Jofish Kaye, former co-chair of CHI 2016, he provides some hands-on tips about cutting through to the essence of paper writing and finding good research questions. I hope you enjoy this interview.

Duration:00:41:08

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Episode 2 - Interview with Carl Gutwin

5/10/2021
This is an older interview when I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Carl Gutwin from the University of Saskatchewan in 2016 for the How to write CHI papers course (Carl has been papers chair of CHI in the past and has an incredible amount of experience in writing for SIGCHI conferences). Having worked with Carl at the University of Saskatchewan before, I knew that he was going to have some excellent advice for new CHI writers. In fact, it was Carl who taught me the first CHI writing...

Duration:01:02:51

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Episode 1 - Interviews from CHI 2019

8/19/2019
In this episode, Dr. Lennart Nacke introduces the podcast to listeners and conducts interviews with several people at CHI 2019 about what it takes to write CHI papers.

Duration:00:44:12