dissappointment

Another year's chance has passed, and another opportunity gone. I was working hard on a paper for my research project to be submitted to CHI 2009. It's the top conference for the area of my work. So this time around, we worked with a psychologist to design an experiment grounded in psychological theories.

However, the reviews received are not promising. Though the actual paper acceptance results are not out till early December, it is as good as NIL chance now. Not that the topic of the paper was not interesting, in fact the reviewers find the topic "lovely!". Alas, it is , in my opinion a matter of presentation and clarity. We did not make clear certain accepted standards taken from psychology to be presented to the HCI community. And this has caused confusion and lack of understanding on the design of the experiment.

well, certainly an acceptance into this conference would go a long way in supporting the case for my Phd thesis topic. Without it, it means i have to work harder in the coming year to try out for next year's conference. Any way, i have not given up and the lessons learned this time around will be used wisely.