It was a mixed bag of news this week on both the Bloomington Startup Weekend and CHI fronts, but the good far outweighed the bad. The sad news for my design team came in the form of mixed reviews on our own submission, one of just 40 international submissions by students willing to take on the wicked problem of designing for people experiencing homelessness. I include our three reviews with rebuttal analysis of each.
Transparency of my recent failure
For the second year, an attempt to join the CHI Doctoral Consortium has been denied. Last year, I was focusing on barriers to entry in joining online communities, and this year I switched to merging complexity and HCI design. I share my reviews and reflection on the new failure.