jessica vitak (she/her)

Qualitative researchers: what are common critiques/questions you get in reviews? I was reminded about this document I created last year outlining major critiques and how I have responded but I'm always looking to expand: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHiWJdkjm6Go683GIxi0tz8l-17rQQpadn9qb7zZDh4/edit?usp=sharing

I currently cover reviewer comments about:
*quantifying your data
*IRR
*method justification
*sample size

I'm excited to be co-chairing CSCW 2025 (@cscw@hci.social) with Fabiano Pinatti. Please follow CSCW here on Mastodon and/or Bluesky, as we will no longer post to Twitter. #cscw2025

Here's a pic of some of the amazing 2025 organizing committee members!

This is lovely.

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements:
https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/unexpected-poetry-phd-acknowledgements

Please join me in celebrating my Roomba, which ran and made it back to its charging dock TWO DAYS IN A ROW. This is an incredible achievement! 🎉

I'm spending the next two days at #soups2024, which is the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. My student Sunyup Park will be presenting our study of Airbnb hosts' perceptions of privacy risks and benefits of smart devices. You can read the full paper here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2024/presentation/park

I'd like to thank Past Vitak for setting a deadline two days early in her to-do list, because I was just about to request a two-day extension for this task, then realized Past Vitak had tricked Future Vitak by purposefully listing the date early.

Oh the games we play with our brains.

I hate jet lag.
That's it. That's all I got.

The iSchool and Government & Politics Dept at UMD invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. This position is open to applicants from any fields within information and political sciences that apply data science concepts and methods in their work. We seek candidates who address information science concepts and methodologies to study important social science problems in the broad field of government and politics.

For more information, see
https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114626

Heading to Costa Rica for #cscw2024? Check out the 15 workshops being held the weekend before the main conference.
https://cscw.acm.org/2024/index.php/submit-workshop/

CHI review requests are going out today & I have two asks: (1) reply quickly, even if you need to decline, and (2) if declining, take a moment to think about who might else be a good reviewer and send that information to the requester (just reply to the request email*). As someone who's been an AE for multiple journals, it's really hard to get reviewers these days, so any recommendation helps.

*Note that doing this won't decline the request -- you need to click the decline link to do that.

@aram@aoir.social Not since 2007, but I still love the town (if not the apartment complex!).

If you're attending CSCW this fall, I hope you'll join us for an important discussion of the peer review crisis. We'll have numerous ways for people to ask questions and contribute leading up to and during the panel. #cscw2024