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@NElmqvist @MattiasArvola @professorBodker @ProfessorHook (And I’m not saying you said that @NElmqvist !) The #sigchi community needs to continue to fight these kinds of biases. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@NElmqvist @MattiasArvola @professorBodker @ProfessorHook The best part of this is we gathered plenty of resources for the rebuttal to include in future pubs. (Of course the reviewers didn’t care) 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@NElmqvist @MattiasArvola @professorBodker @ProfessorHook I’m not so sure we say it’s hard to avoid such bias and leave it at that. It’s disappointing that a colleague at an academic conference, regardless of native culture, would believe that peoples’ race has no effect on their life experiences. That’s privilege and it needs 2b said 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@sevensixfive have you seen the doc spaceship earth about biosphere 2? It has space adobes. Honestly, it is super interesting. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@MattiasArvola @NElmqvist @professorBodker @ProfessorHook It’s not about the reviewer not understanding work within an “underprivileged” community and more about the ignorance of US structural racism. See https://placesjournal.org/article/the-third-rail/ to see how purposefully bad a city like Baltimore was designed to be. 🔄 2 👍 5 Original URL

@NElmqvist Ah, that kind of makes me feel worse! Primary: SAA, Secondary: Design. Essentially the kid one but it went to AI people. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@NElmqvist This was AC2’s comments. My guess based on my knowledge of CHI reviewing is that there weren’t enough reviewers so they brought in another AC. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@NElmqvist It’s #CHI2020 . I mentioned it publicly in Dec/Jan but no one seemed interested and I always feel like I’m fighting windmills. With all that is happening in the US (and why), it seemed as good a time as any to bring it back up and remind all of us that academia isn’t immune. 🔄 0 👍 12 Original URL

RT @ubaltmain: “We in the UB community are engaged in meeting the challenges posed by this pandemic of racism. We are here to uplift, inspi… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MECM It’s painful. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL