UCI CHI 2025 Bootcamp 🥾🏕️

All bootcamp sessions are Wednesdays 11-12:30 in DBH 5011!

Email Elena or Daniel for a Zoom link. But only as a last resort!

June 26: Plan writing (starting at 11:30; slides📽️)

  • 📺Watch: A Schrock on How to Manage Your Time on Writing Projects
  • 📋Bring in: Timeline of your writing for CHI, week by week. The BootCamp will be an opportunity to discuss and get feedback on each section of your paper, but the writing should happen in parallel across sections. Include:
    • what has been completed in your study: have you completed your study, how far along is your analysis, what have you written thus far
    • what you have left to do: how much data you need to analyze, literature you need to review, etc. Add to do items week by week. Include revisions to your paper sections.
    • any commitments you have in different weeks that you need to account for (e.g. vacation)
  • 📋Bring in: Two published CHI papers which you feel are most relevant to your work, ideally both in topic and method. Upload here your timeline and papers.
  • 🗣️Activity: Peer feedback on timeline for your paper. 

July 3: Holiday, no meeting

July 10: Writing an Introduction (slides📽️)

July 17: Introduction iteration (slides📽️)

July 24: Background/related work (slides📽️)

  • 📖Read: Five papers in your area that make the same type of contribution as yours and use similar methods (particularly qualitative/quantitative, systematic review). Pay attention to how they organize their findings. For equal work, how many themes/subthemes they have, and how they organize those themes. For quant work, how they present statistical tests, and explain what we learn from those tests.
  • 📺Watch: Schrock: Outlining for writing results, How to write paragraphs
  • 📋Bring in: Full draft of a background or related work. Upload here.
  • 🗣️Activity: Peer feedback on Related Work and Results prep

July 31: Results/findings (slides📽️)

August 7: Discussion and conclusion (slides📽️)

August 14: Methods (slides📽️)

  • 📋Bring in: Full draft of your methods. Upload here.
  • 🗣️Activity: Peer feedback on Discussion and Abstract/submission guidance

August 21: Putting it all together & Overleaf

Online-only 🌐

Guest: Isabela Figueira on Overleaf 🍃

  • 📺Watch: Schrock: Use of verbs, cutting length, signposting
  • 📋Bring in: Abstract and subcommittee choice. Beyond that, whatever you have. Put specific questions you have about how to improve your draft at the top. Upload here.
  • 🗣️Activity: Peer feedback on Abstract and Overleaf tutorial

August 28: Abstracts and submission fields

Guest: Aure Schrock on giving feedback 🔄

September 4: Full draft swap, as needed

  • 📋Bring in: A full draft. Upload here.
  • Submit your abstracts by September 5!

September 11: Writing session

  • 📋Bring in: Any final questions you have.
  • Submit your full papers by September 12!