GROUP 2025: Call for Papers

The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP), a PACMHCI Affiliated Conference, will take place from January 12-15, 2025, at the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA.

GROUP is a venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Sociotechnical Studies, Practice-Centered Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Open Source Software, and related endeavors. The conference aims to encourage and facilitate researchers to interact and present research contributions, especially those from interdisciplinary groups.

Conference Topics

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):

• Theoretical, methodological, and/or conceptual contributions about key concepts relevant to CSCW and HCI, including critique.
• Social, behavioral, and computational studies of collaboration and communication.
• Technical architectures supporting collaboration.
• New tools/toolkits for collaborative technologies.
• Ethnographic studies of collaborative practices.
• Coordination and workflow technology.
• Social computing and contexts of collaboration.
• Studies on Open Source Software.
• Current work in, and future visions of, practice-centered computing.
• Social justice, ethical dimensions, and related issues in CSCW, HCI, and/or sociotechnical systems.
• Online communities, including issues of privacy, identity, trust, and participation.
• Cooperative knowledge management.
• Algorithmic decision-support systems, automation, and human-AI collaboration.
• Civic technologies and their uses.
• Organizational issues of technology design, use, or adaptation.
• Strategies for use of technology in business, government, and newer forms of organizations.
• The ethical conduct of research studying group work and sociotechnical systems
• Emerging technologies and their design, use, or appropriation in work, home, leisure, entertainment, or education.
• Learning at the workplace (CSCL at work, Technology-Enhanced Learning, TEL).
• Co-located and geographically-distributed teams, global collaboration.
• Cultural and cross-cultural collaboration and communication.
• Mobile and wearable technologies in collaboration.
• Innovative forms of human computer interaction for cooperative technologies.

Submission Types

The main technical program at GROUP welcomes submissions in a variety of forms:

• Traditional Papers: Report on high quality, rigorous research results.
• Design Fiction: May use a variety of speculative methods to explore the futures towards which technology research and design are working.
• Notes: Shorter submissions that maintain a high level of quality and rigor while focusing on a more circumscribed result.

Authors will have the opportunity to indicate to reviewers that their submission should be reviewed as a paper, a note, or as a design fiction.

All papers, design fictions, and notes will be published in the Group track of Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction (PACMHCI).

Submission Guidelines

• ACM authoring templates and detailed instructions on formatting can be found at https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates.
• Papers have no fixed minimum or maximum number of pages. Paper length should be commensurate with contribution, and typical submissions are:
  • Note: between 4,000 and 6,000 words
  • Full Paper: between 7,000 and 10,000 words
  • Design Fiction: between 4,000 and 10,000 words. Design fictions should clearly state that the paper is a design fiction in the abstract.
• Papers that are widely over the typical length (e.g., above 12,000 words) will be examined carefully.
• Papers are subject to anonymous reviewing. Submissions must have authors’ names and affiliations removed, and avoid obvious identifying statements.
• Papers that clearly violate the anonymization policy, including within the supplemental materials, will be desk rejected.
• GROUP does not have a policy against uploading preprints to SSRN or arXiv before they are submitted for review at the conference.

Main technical program submissions must be submitted online via the GROUP 2025 selection in Precision Conference Systems (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions The track for submission can be selected with Society: Group > Conference/Journal: Group 2025 > Group 2025 Second Wave Research Papers.

Important Dates

All dates below are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Second Wave Submissions:

• Abstract and Title Submission: May 1, 2024 (Passed)
• Submission Deadline: May 8, 2024 (Passed)
• 1st Round Reviews and Notifications: July 24, 2024 (Passed)
• Resubmit Contributions Invited for Revision: August 21, 2024 (Passed)
• 2nd Round Decisions: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 (Passed)

First Wave Submissions:

• Submission Deadline: June 7, 2023 (Passed)

Additional CfPs:

• Workshop Proposals Deadline: July 15, 2024 (Passed)
• Doctoral Consortium Deadline: September 23, 2024 (Passed)
• Posters, Demos, and Case Studies Deadline: September 30, 2024 (Passed)

Contact Information

General Chairs

• Guo Freeman, Clemson University, USA
• David Unbehaun, Clausthal University of Technology and University of Siegen, Germany
• Email: chairs2025@group.acm.org

Technical Program Chairs

• Maria Menendez-Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Matthieu TIXIER, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
• Donghee Yvette Wohn, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• Email: papers2025@group.acm.org