ACM CSCW

🗳️ Announcing the CSCW Steering Committee Chair (Elect) Elections!

Two exceptional nominees received multiple nominations each: Jessica Vitak and Naomi Yamashita. The CSCW Chair Elect will serve on the CSCW steering committee (SC) for two years (2025-2027) and then transition to Steering Committee Chair (2027-2029).

Please vote at the link below. Voting is anonymous and closes on December 18. You will need your SIGCHI membership number to vote.

https://karriekarahalios.com/CSCW/ChairElect2025/ACM-SIG-Check/

📣 Announcing our CSCW 2026 location: Salt Lake City, Utah! The dates of the conference will be October 10-14, 2026.
Introducing our conference general chairs for next year: Xinru Page and Guo Freeman.
Looking forward to seeing everyone next year ⛰️ 🤩!

For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, Gina Neff discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.

Not only is General Chair Jessica @vitak@hci.social running #CSCW2025 with Fabiano Pinatti, but she also gave a talk on research about helping incidental users navigate privacy risks in smart environments.

👋🏽 It's the final day of #CSCW2025! Gina Neff, Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London will be giving the closing keynote:
🎤 "Negotiating Innovation: What Construction's Digital Transformation Can Teach Us About AI and the Future of Work"

That’s a wrap on an unforgettable evening! 🎶✨

The Norwegian Orchestra filled the night with beautiful music and smiles at our CSCW Social Event. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us — what a wonderful way to celebrate our community.

#CSCW2025

#CSCW2025 attendees! 🌍 Visit our DEI space and Community Art Installation (first floor coffee area) to connect with others and see where our community spans across the globe!

🎤 Humans of CSCW2025
Meet Nayana Kirasur from Rutgers University.
I asked her what brought her to CSCW as it's her first time. Her response: "I have a paper I’m presenting, it’s a really fun space, people who are doing the work behind the scenes are wonderful, mentor/mentee lunch was great”

Now at #CSCW2025! Authors explore innovative approaches to enhancing emotional connection and team formation across distances, examining how technology bridges physical separation while fostering meaningful collaboration in virtual spaces.

Now at #CSCW2025! Authors in the AI Applications for Safety and Support session explore how AI shapes mental health support—from reducing stigma through human-AI cooperation to understanding LLM use in mental health conversations and designing ethical, supportive AI systems.

Now at #CSCW2025! Paper authors in the Governing Platforms / Technology’s Role in Governance session cover a range of topics from Nepal’s governmental regulation of TikTok to supporting diasporic social movements through the case of Belarus to rural hunters civic participation in open data !

Now at #CSCW2025! The Open Source Community workshop is exploring the human side of open source collaboration, from navigating power dynamics among developers, designers, and users to managing interdisciplinary multi project teams.

Now at #CSCW2025!
Matt Ratto leads a SIG on Social Agentics, exploring how agentic AI systems can be designed in social and organizational contexts. From CSCW’s legacy of studying coordination and interdependence, the session asks how social theory can guide accountable, situated approaches to AI.

We welcomed new CSCW Steering Committee members, Sue Fussell (Chair) and Nat Poore. Karrie Karahalios ended her term as Chair. There was a lively discussion around governance, the need for senior member to volunteer to join the program committee, and the transition to rolling deadlines. #CSCW2025

🎤 Humans of CSCW2025

Meet Inha Cha, Ph.D. student from Georgia Tech.

“The highlight of my day was cheering for my friend during their presentation — seeing them share their work with such passion was really inspiring!” 💛

#CSCW2025

🎤 Humans of CSCW2025

Meet Patrick Lee , PhD student from University of Toronto.
What brought you to CSCW this year?

💬 "This is my second time at CSCW, my first one was as a nervous undergrad. Now that I'm starting a PhD, I came back to meet people and explore new ideas."

#HumansOfCSCW #CSCW2025

🪩 Poster Session time at #CSCW2025!
Come explore fresh ideas, early-stage projects, and inspiring conversations with researchers from around the world 🌍✨

🎤 Humans of CSCW2025

Meet Hiba Siraj, PhD student from George Mason University.

💬 “I hosted a workshop yesterday. It’s my first CSCW! I’m here to connect and exchange new perspectives with the CSCW community.”

#HumansOfCSCW #CSCW2025

SIG: Evaluating Research from and About the Global Majority.

A key quote from the session: the “Global South” isn’t a single entity. “Practices differ — what works or makes sense in one context can’t just be mapped onto another.”

#CSCW2025 #GlobalMajority #HCI

🌊🔥Heading to CSCW in Bergen? 🌊🔥

RSVPs are due TODAY (Aug. 29) for our "Floating Sauna on the Fjord" community activity on October 18th or 19th:
👉 https://forms.gle/S1VR2SKW4q7dAoDDA

Reservations are limited & first-come-first-served.
Come relax, connect, and enjoy the fjord!

We are excited to announce our wonderful line-up of community programming for #CSCW2025. All CSCW authors and community members---including virtual & in-person conference attendees---are invited to view our events and RSVP or volunteer today!

Read more here:
medium.com/p/b184b55129d2

Would you use emoji when messaging with someone who chats using a screen reader? 🤔 @carla@hci.social and @garreth@hci.social and @benjgorman@bird.makeup explore how to help sighted users text with emoji in more accessible ways in this #CSCW2024 article: https://tinyurl.com/yvybvb27-cscw2024

"Community Archetypes" offer better strategies for delineating and studying communities to align with users' experiences. Learn more about this new framework at #CSCW2024 by Gale Prinster @estellesmith@hci.social @chenhaotan and @bkeegan@hci.social. https://tinyurl.com/bdzdun7d-cscw2024

Do explanations about AI systems describe them as mindful, human-like agents? And if so, does this affect how humans perceive the systems? Susanne Hindennach, Lei Shi, Filip Miletić and Andreas Bulling investigate the prevalence and impact of mind attribution in XAI in their #CSCW2024 paper: https://tinyurl.com/2verk48u-cscw2024

On the r/BlackPeopleTwitter subreddit, racial verification is controversial... but it protects authentic Black expression and community. Read about new work at #CSCW2024 by
@estellesmith@hci.social @shamikalashawn@hci.social Gale Prinster @chenhaotan and @bkeegan@hci.social. https://tinyurl.com/2jumc5cy-cscw2024

Attention is all they need! Computer vision papers are changing as authors use new strategies to attract online attention. Sam Goree, Gabriel Appleby, David Crandall and Norman Makoto Su explore these trends in a recent paper, presented at #CSCW2024: https://tinyurl.com/42kwbej2-cscw2024

Good news—early bird registration for #CSCW2024 has been extended until October 7, 2024! 🐦 Don't miss your chance to save on registration fees 🎉

For full details and to register, visit: https://cscw.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration/
#PuraVida 🇨🇷

Bookings at the Wyndam hotel are full, be sure to get your hotel bookings sorted.

CSCW call for Associate Chair (AC) aka PC aka Meta Reviewers: https://forms.gle/WaHnUwacNVSugKjr8 for Oct 29 deadline. Reminder: Oct 29 is last new paper deadline for CSCW 2025, no new submissions in January 2025: https://cscw.acm.org/2025/index.php/changes-and-clarifications/

CSCW 2024 Registration Open now! https://cscw.acm.org/2024/index.php/registration/ Hotels and Flights at great prices. Excellent program and day trips around the conference (volcanos, beaches, more!) #puravida

📰 Ahead of #CSCW2023, we have created a new community resource to help CSCW & HCI researchers engage effectively with the press: https://tinyurl.com/CSCW-news. 📰

Please share with colleagues & students who may be contacted by journalists, esp. if they've never done this before!

We are seeking nominations for papers published at CSCW prior to 2013 for this year's Lasting Impact Award. 🏅⌛️

Use this form to nominate papers that have had a profound impact on your research and/or the field of CSCW as a whole: https://forms.gle/JKFhGhvSsHT7dSjq8

Please sign up to be an Associate Chair for #CSCW2024 to help our community continue our tradition of excellence in research. See the form linked below, due this Friday (July 14).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2p0Lz-P2gROqqD_4FSbPYOi3GVZhnZ9Z-LojBlCfinTdlGg/viewform

We are seeking volunteers to help us review poster submissions. Please consider helping out as an Associate Chair for #CSCW2023. This is a particularly great opportunity for folks who are interested in building up their AC skillset.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdisJpuTFkWEJeJ6nPEXoXlhn-gIdBdCRMq4BuVJ1I3NjQ_CQ/viewform