Confessions of a researchaholic

Yesterday I received some automatic notification about an accepted demo to SIGGRAPH Asia Real-Time Live without realizing that I have a submission there (a co-author of a previous UIST paper made the submission without telling others).

https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1455674543930953728

I mentioned this in a group meeting today, and a colleague told me that he has a previous intern who submitted their project without including his name and he found out by a review request for that submission.
🙂
So my case is quite benign in comparison.

I remember (20+ years ago while I was still in school) during a faculty seminar, Mark Horowitz couldn’t attend, and Bill Dally presented his research by skipping all results slides by simply saying “good results!” and called it a day.

As someone coming from the SIGGRAPH-side of research, I always wish that all CHI user study sections can contain just one sentence: happy users and good results! (instead of pages of descriptions and statistics which, honestly, I never read).

https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1434981016800690180

You can find the survey by Adam Bargteil here.

I have a simpler proposal: revert to the original conference format for SIGGRAPH technical papers (i.e., before year 2002) and give authors the option to submit an extended version of their SIGGRAPH conference papers to ToG as journal papers (with the usual rule of at least 30\% more new materials, for example, most likely for additional analysis and evaluation).
We can then get rid of the current special ToG issues of SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia.

https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1410696558761287681