Comments on: Devastating honesty in Marcus Duveskog’s research paper

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:16:48 +0000

Great Roman that you advertise our paper. Must say it has been a great conference here in Como with so many interesting presentations. Glad I made it here and thanks for your great contributions for that.

By: roman

roman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:38:04 +0000

And to finish the loop, the paper is now available online at ACM Portal.

By: roman

roman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:32:14 +0000

Who else will boost up your own work than you yourself? So here we go: the ACM IDC seems to be a high-profile conference, judging from the email we got from the organizers: “Dear IDC Author,
we are finalizing the IDC 2009 program, which includes a set of exciting workshops, two prestigious keynotes, and a fantastic set of high quality presentations of:
- 17 full papers (selected from 53 submissions)
- 30 short papers (selected from 82 submissions)
- 12 demos (selected from 20 submissions)”

Now, 32% acceptance rate is quite good, what do you think? (But still twice the ACM CHI).

By: roman

roman — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:53:40 +0000

It got through: ACM IDC 2009. We got seven(!) reviews, splitting the board of reviewers into love/hate groups. More info soon.

By: carolina

carolina — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:38:27 +0000

:) nice that you work together :) . When you were in Africa haven’t you experience as well strong differences? . I am not saying there are good or bad, there are just differences that might trigger to reflect situations.

Imagine if we were exploring cases in Gaza or Myramar, the diference will be even greater. Well with the few things that I follow of different ethnographers, it makes me be thankful, because I have no idea of what I have.

What I am proud, and I agree totally with you, is the honesty and simple language of Marcus (haven’t read the paper, but for what you quote).

About your last paragraph, yes, we are “spoiled” but we are in that specific “pink sphere”. Inclusive in Europe you can find sectors of the population that does not understand the concept of “right and left click” of the mouse (proved). They are minority, perhaps yes. What I want to say, each region of the world has different challenges without a doubt but those challenges can be also advantages. You know how valuable is that they actually ask and want to reflect which one is the difference between “formats” because they do not give it as fact. In comparison others might do it automatically, without knowing the reason why, just know that it should be in that way.

Who knows, just to entertain the mind….

By: ismael

ismael — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:41:26 +0000

Don’t forget to post back again when Marcus’s paper sees the light.

Kudos for tagging this post with “ict4d”: this is how I found it :)