Writing a CHI rebuttal

Here are some useful resources on writing a CHI rebuttal.

Examples

Examples of the reviews, the reviewers' ratings (initial and post-rebuttal), and the rebuttals:

Accepted papers

Conference	R1	R2	R3	AC	R1 post-rebuttal	R2 post-rebuttal	R3 post-rebuttal	AC post-rebuttal	reviews	rebuttal
CHI2010	4	3.5	2.5	3	4	4	3.5	4	reviews-230.rtf	rebuttal-230.rtf
CHI2012	3	4.5	4.5	4					review-121.doc	rebuttal-121.txt
CHI2013	2.5	4.5	4.5	3.5					review-806.txt	rebuttal-806.rtf

Non-CHI papers

Conference	R1	R2	R3	AC	R1 post-rebuttal	R2 post-rebuttal	R3 post-rebuttal	AC post-rebuttal	rebuttal file	comments
HRI2013	4	5	2	3	-	-	-	-	review-135.docx	rebuttal.1.3.docx

Rejected papers

Conference	R1	R2	R3	AC	R1 post-rebuttal	R2 post-rebuttal	R3 post-rebuttal	AC post-rebuttal	rebuttal file	comments
CHI2012	2.5	2	4	3	-	-	-	-	review-434.txt	rebuttal-434.pdf

General Tips

Forming a rebuttal plan

• start with listing all the concerns that the reviewers have raised
• prioritize the concerns based on their importance
• brief summary of how you can address each concern

Writing the rebuttal

• start with thanking all the reviewers for their comments

Files

• review-434.txt: Review for a paper rejected to CHI12

• rebuttal-434.pdf: Rebuttal for CHI12#434 submission--rejected

• reviews-230.rtf: Review for an accepted CHI 2010 paper

• rebuttal-230.rtf: Rebuttal for CHI 2010 #230 submission -- accepted

• review-121.doc: Review for an accepted CHI 2012 paper

• rebuttal-121.txt: Rebuttal for CHI 2012 #121 submission -- accepted

• review-806.txt: Review for an accepted CHI 2013 paper

• rebuttal-806.rtf: Rebuttal for CHI 2013 #806 submission -- accepted

• review-135.docx: Review for a paper accepted to HRI2013

• rebuttal.1.3.docx: Rebuttal to HRI2013 paper