CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM CSCW 2021
The 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

NOTE: We are still unsure whether the conference will take place as a hybrid or fully online event, but we are looking forward to building an exciting Papers programme either way! –Luigina Ciolfi, CSCW 2021 General Co-Chair

Deadlines: Submissions are accepted at four deadlines per year. The upcoming deadline is October 15, 2020, which will be followed by January 15, April 15, and Jul 15, 2021. Submissions accepted for publication in the October 2020, January 2021 and April 2021 cycles will be invited to present at CSCW 2021. Papers accepted from July 2021 onwards will be invited to present at CSCW 2022.

CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities. Join us as we explore how technologies can enable new ways of living and working together.

We invite authors to submit papers that inform the design or deployment of collaborative or social systems; introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms; or, study existing collaborative or social practices. The scope of CSCW 2021 includes social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, open and remote collaboration, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, such as video-conferencing and other remote-presence technologies, CSCL, MOOCs and related educational technologies, multi-user input technologies, collocated work practices, work articulation and coordination, awareness, and information sharing. This scope spans socio-technical domains of work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, sociality, entertainment, and ethics. Papers can report on novel research results, designs, systems, or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities.

CSCW encourages papers that make a contribution to building CSCW systems, including (but not limited to) engineering and technical enablers for CSCW applications, methods and techniques for new CSCW services and applications, and evaluation of both early-stage and fully-built CSCW systems in lab or field settings.

To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW uses a minimum of two-cycle review process with opportunity for major revisions reviewed by the same reviewers. Additionally, no arbitrary length limit is imposed on submissions. Accepted papers are published in the Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) journal.

We invite contributions to CSCW across a variety of research techniques, methods, approaches, and domains, including:

• Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds or collaborative information behaviors.
• System development. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.
• Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems, within and beyond work settings.
• Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or studies of practices, communication, collaboration, or use, as related to collaborative technologies.
• Data mining and modeling. Studies, analyses and infrastructures for making use of large- and small-scale data.
• Methodologies and tools. Novel methods, or combinations of approaches and tools used in building collaborative systems or studying their use.
• Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including applications to healthcare, transportation, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains.
• Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition, big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSs, or sensing systems.
• Ethics and policy implications. Analysis of the implications of socio-technical systems and the algorithms that shape them.
• Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.

For more information:

Website: https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

Please reach out to papers2021@cscw.acm.org for queries about paper submissions.

Editors (editors2021@cscw.acm.org):

• Sharon Ding (Fudan University)
• Susan R. Fussell (Cornell University)
• Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Snap Research)
• Sean Munson (University of Washington)
• Mor Naaman (Cornell University)
• Irina Shklovski (University of Copenhagen)

Papers Co-Chairs (papers2021@cscw.acm.org):

• Shaowen Bardzell (Penn State University)
• Siân Lindley (Microsoft Research)
• Aleksandra Sarcevic (Drexel University)