Uncovering CHI Reviewers Needs and Barriers

A peer review process is an essential part of not only in the CHI conference but also in many scientific research areas to determine which paper submitted should be accepted. In order to improve the peer review process, tools have been developed to support reviewers by reducing the paper they should review or by highlighting key sentences to read faster. However, only a few studies investigated reviewers' perspectives regarding their tasks during the peer review process. In this paper, we conducted semi-structured interviews with CHI reviewers who have experienced in reviewing paper submitted to the CHI conference. As a result, we better understand how paper-reviewing tasks are performed, which tasks reviewers felt most challenging, and reviewers' needs for a better peer review experience.