Adobe GoLive’s Point & Shoot: Paper Rejected

From: CHI2000-SHORTTALKS
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:34:41 +0100
To: mprove@acm.org
Subject: submission 317 /CHI 2000 short Talks and interactive posters

Thank you for your CHI 2000 Short Talks and Interactive Posters submission. Your submission was reviewed by multiple independent reviewers. One of our Associate Chairs then read these reviews and provided the summary review that is attached. Finally, these summary reviews were reviewed by us as we selected those submissions to be presented at CHI 2000.

Your submission was not selected for presentation at CHI 2000. Approximately 350 submissions were reviewed. Of these, we were able to accept only 24 to be presented as short talks and 51 to be presented as interactive posters. Thank you for your interest in CHI 2000; we hope to see you there!

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CHI 2000 Short Papers and Interactive Posters Co-Chairs

PAPER NUMBER: 317
PAPER TITLE: Adobe GoLive's point & shoot: an interface technique for creating hyperlinks
PAPER AUTHORS: Mathias Muller-Prove
RATING (5-1): 1 (definitely reject)
RECOMMENDATION (P, T, E): P

Summary Review 1

First, the paper is largely an ad, which is inappropriate. Second, there is insufficient development of the rationale of why point and shoot is different from or better than drag and drop, in a meaningful way. Third, there the conflict at the end of the paper is not resolved. It is stated that point and shoot is neither obvious nor intuitive (which would lead one to predict that it is not necessarily a good idea), but the marketing "data" is also stated that "...we got a lot of positive feedback from our users. " and "It is fun to use point and shoot." Valid and reliable data are needed.

Summary Review 2

This is just a description of a not-too-original and certainly not new (available since 1996) method of specifying links.

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