[dcchairs2016] Review of UbiComp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School submission 107

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Paper  107 - Typeface-Emotion Analysis for Communication on the Mobile Messenger
Reviewer 2 - Max Muhlhauser

Overall rating:  1  (scale is 1..6; 6 is best)

Confidence

    

Contribution to UbiComp

   ...totally unclear
 

Overall Rating

   1  (Definite reject: I would argue strongly for rejecting this paper.)

R&R Suitability (hidden from author)

   Reject without offering revise/resubmit - 5 weeks is too short to improve submission sufficiently 

The Review

   The contribution presents an interesting, rather elaborate study on
   (mainly) the question of which kinds of emotions different particular
   typefaces (fonts) can generate. While the results are interesting (and so
   astonishing that more data w.r.t. statistical significance, variance etc.
   would be appreciated), the contribution does not seem to be appropriate
   at all for the UbiComp DC for two reasons:
   -	The contribution seems to be a 1:1 version of a scientific paper
   (roughly equivalent to one conference paper) rather than a description of
   past and future PhD thesis work, achieved and planned results, set of
   scientific methods etc. as requested in the call for papers; assuming
   that a valid PhD will consist of much more content, the contribution
   fails to describe what was requested
   -	The contribution is very far remote from the core of UbiComp topics;
   research about typefaces / fonts in a general UI is definitely not what
   the UbiComp audience expects
   For these two main reasons, the contribution cannot be accepted.
 

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