Monday, May 12, 2008

IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Conference 2008 (IHCI)

I have just received the acceptance of the paper:
Web Environment for Collaborative and Extensible Diagram Design

Paper is proposed to be in the proceedings of IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Conference 2008 (IHCI) as "Reflection Paper" . However, I had to renounce to publish it due to personal issues, economical mayorly. I also think that it can be improved a lot, as can be realized reading reviewers comments.

Somme positive comments for the paper are:
  • "The paper has reasonable technical quality, and clear and consistent diagram and use of technical language"
  • "The architecture is based on newly technologies and use well-known patterns"
  • "The subject is relevant: Collaborative web-based tools demand a lot of research and implementation work"
  • "An excellent idea, very promissing but a lack of credibility as regard to the implementation and the evaluation"
  • "Very interesting key issue"
Also, some weak points were remarked by reviewers:
  • "This is more a position paper than the result of implementatory work"
  • "The lack of any sort of formal discussion or results, makes it hard to see the real world value of the model proposed"
  • "Scenarios could be used to improve the explanation, even using hypothetical situations/applications"
  • "There is not a proof of concept"
  • "In addition, the introduction needs to be expanded to include an overview of the literature on collaborative web-based systems and how is the main differences/similarities with respect to other existing tools (e.g. Google docs)"
  • "Unfortunately, there is no evaluation that measures the impact of the system on actual users"
  • "It seems unusual to have a paper written in English with references written in any other language"
  • "You claim as key words psychology and data mining but you don't adress these questions seriously"
  • "Your bibliography could be broadenned"