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Dear all,
As some of you may know, interaction as a group, and individuals within
HCI have been discussing ways to continue to improve the quality of
refereeing.
Wendy Howie has recently taken over from Nico Guernion as the ICT
associate programme manager at EPSRC: I recently had a meeting with her,
and one of the suggestions to improve the quality of refereeing of EPSRC
grants was to ensure that the information on the Je-S system was up to
date. The APMs use the Je-S database to chose referees for grants based
on their perceived appropriateness, and this is judged on the keywords
in the system and in the free text fields.
I would therefore encourage all HCI researchers active in reviewing to
take this opportunity to update their entries on the Je-S system - after
logging in you an access your personal information through the 'My
Details' option, where you can change the information in the free text
field.
If you can be as specific as possible in your expertise, that would help
EPSRC (who can then choose the most appropriate reviewers), the
applicants (who get the best possible reviewing quality) and you (who
get only grants you feel qualified to comment on to review).
For college members, there is also a list of keywords that are used,
which you completed when you were originally elected - if you wish to
change those, then this has to be done manually at present (though Je-S
should have this functionality by the end of the year). If you want to
change these now, rather than revisit this in the new year, let me know
and I'll email you the EPSRC list of keywords to choose from.
With best wishes
Russell.
Chair, interaction (The BCS Specialist Group formerly known as The
British HCI Group)
(please distribute this to all HCI researchers)
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Dr Russell Beale
Advanced Interaction Group
School of Computer Science
University of Birmimgham UK
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