CHI PLAY 2021 : Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

In addition to the work the CHI PLAY Steering Committee (SC) does on improving accessibility to, inclusion within, and the quality of the conference experience itself, we also consider how we can improve the processes and policies around paper review and publication. Through discussions with our community and its leaders over the years, we have identified many challenges in three main categories (quality, equity, and reach), which can all be addressed in one single change.

As of CHI PLAY 2021, we will be introducing a revise and resubmit phase to the review process, and moving our publications to the journal PACMHCI, the home journal of other SIGCHI communities like CSCW, EICS, ISS, and Group.

By replacing the 1-week rebuttal with a 6-week revise and resubmit (R&R) phase, we will see a number of important effects to paper and review quality, the equity of the submission and review process, and the reach of our papers.