CSCW 2026: Call for Papers

The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) is the premier venue for human-centered research in the design, use, and evaluation of technologies that support or affect social, cooperative, and collaborative practices in groups, organizations, communities, and networks. CSCW 2026 will be held in the USA in October 2026. The exact location and date will be announced as soon as possible.

CSCW 2026 explores topics across sociotechnical domains of work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, design, entertainment, and ethics. This includes social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, and technologies for co-located or remote collaboration, communication, education, work articulation, coordination, awareness, and information sharing.

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions to CSCW across a variety of human-centered 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.
• CSCW and social computing system development: Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that are explored and discussed within the context of building new social and collaborative systems and experiences.
• Methodologies and tools: Novel human-centered methods, or combinations of approaches and tools used in building collaborative systems or studying their use.
• Critical, historical, ethnographic analyses: Studies of technologically enabled social, cooperative, and collaborative practices within and beyond work settings illuminating their historical, social, and material specificity, and/or exploring their political or ethical dimensions.
• Empirical investigations: Findings, guidelines, and/or studies of social practices, communication, cooperation, collaboration, or use, as related to CSCW and social technologies.
• Domain-specific social, cooperative, and collaborative applications: Including applications to healthcare, transportation, design, manufacturing, gaming, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains.
• Ethics and policy implications: Analysis of the implications of sociotechnical systems in social, cooperative and collaborative practices, as well as the algorithms that shape them.
• CSCW and social computing systems based on emerging technologies: Including mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition, big data, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSs, computer-aided or robotically-supported work, and sensing systems.
• Crossing boundaries: Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across fields of research, disciplines, distances, languages, generations, and cultures to help better understand how CSCW and social systems might help transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.

Submission Information

Send queries about paper submissions to papers2026@cscw.acm.org.

Submission Model

CSCW 2026 will use a two-round review process with the opportunity for major revisions reviewed by the same reviewers. Accepted papers are published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) Journal. CSCW 2026 papers will be published under ACM Open Access.

Submission Timeline (May 2025 Cycle)

• May 14, 2025: New paper submissions due 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
• Expected notification date: August 19, 2025, AoE
• Possible outcomes: Revise for External Review, Assisted Desk Reject
• September 16, 2025: Resubmission of papers that received a Revise for External Review recommendation due 23:59 AoE
• Expected notification date: November 11, 2025
• Possible outcomes: Conditional Accept with Minor Changes, Revise and Resubmit, Reject
• January 13, 2026: Resubmission of papers that received a Revise for External Review recommendation due 23:59 AoE.
• Expected notification date: Late March 2026
• Possible outcomes: Conditional Accept with Minor Changes, Reject

Note that the submission system is usually opened two weeks before each deadline (submission and revision).

Submission Process

CSCW 2026 uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) 2.0: https://new.precisionconference.com.

Authors submitting papers for peer-review to ACM publications must comply with the SIGCHI Submission and Review Policy.

Formatting and Length

Word authors need to use the old interim ACM Small template, which is ONLY available at the following link: https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates

LaTeX authors need to use the template at https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions, and insert the acmsmall call.

Overleaf authors need to use the template at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-journals-new-master-template/vgtfrcvmrvxf, and use the acmsmall call.

Reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. If a paper is shorter than 5000 words or exceeds 12,000 words, it will be submitted to additional scrutiny.

Anonymous Review Policy

Papers are subject to anonymous reviewing. Submissions must have authors' names and affiliations removed.

Tiered Review Process

CSCW 2026 adopts a tiered review process. The previous “Editor” role will be replaced with “Senior Program Committee” (SPC).

1. Assisted DR Phase: Decision: Revise for External Review or Assisted DR.
2. External Review Phase: Decision: Conditional Accept with Minor Changes, Revise and Resubmit, or Reject.
3. Revise and Resubmit Phase: Decision: Conditional Accept with Minor Changes, or Reject.

Anyone who submits must make themselves available as a reviewer for this CSCW cycle. To review, you must first sign up by visiting the PCS review volunteering page at the PCS review volunteering page. Select Society "SIGCHI" and then select the current CSCW year (2026) and cycle (May 2025). Reviewers must volunteer to review on PCS by May 14, 2025 at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time. The actual review assignment will be based on the match of expertise, etc.

You must volunteer to complete 3 reviews for each paper you submitted.

Policy on Use of Large Language Models in Writing Papers

Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text.

Policy on Irresponsible Reviews

LLMs are NOT allowed to be used for writing the reviews nor the meta-reviews at any step.

Contact Information

• Papers Chairs:
• Xiaojuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR)
• Kurt Luther (Virginia Tech, USA)
• Adriana S Vivacqua (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Jeffrey Nichols (Apple, USA)
• papers2026@cscw.acm.org
• General Chairs:
• Xinru Page (Brigham Young University, USA)
• Guo Freeman (Clemson University, USA)
• chairs2026@cscw.acm.org