CHI reviewer laments: papers' Discussion sections now cite nothing

IanArawjo · x · 2026-10-16

HCI researcher Ian Arawjo, while reviewing CHI submissions, found that many papers' Discussion sections contain zero citations and make no effort to situate findings in prior literature — some merely restate or pile on new results. Even the better papers fall into this trap, prompting him to ask whether CHI writers have forgotten how to write a Discussion.

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