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 explore topics across sociotechnical domains of work, home, education, healthcare, the arts, design, entertainment, and ethics, including 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
• CSCW and social computing system development
• Methodologies and tools
• Critical, historical, ethnographic analyses
• Empirical investigations
• Domain-specific social, cooperative, and collaborative applications
• Ethics and policy implications
• CSCW and social computing systems based on emerging technologies
• Crossing boundaries

Submission Information

• Send queries about paper submissions to papers2026@cscw.acm.org.
• All deadlines are on Tuesdays.

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.

Important Dates

May 2025 Submission 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.

Anonymity and Formatting

• Papers are subject to anonymous reviewing. Submissions must have authors' names and affiliations removed.
• Word authors must use the old interim ACM Small template, available at 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.
• Papers whose length is incommensurate with their contribution will be desk rejected. If a paper is shorter than 5000 words or exceeds 12,000 words, it will be submitted to additional scrutiny.

Tiered Review Process

CSCW 2026 adopts a tiered review process. Each submission after the Assisted DR phase will be reviewed by a Senior Program Committee member (SPC), a Program Committee member (PC), and two external reviewers.

Review Phases:

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 and must volunteer to complete 3 reviews for each paper you submitted by May 14, 2025 at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time by visiting the PCS review volunteering page.

Policy on Use of Large Language Models (LLM)

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

Key Contacts

• 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)
  • Contact: papers2026@cscw.acm.org
• General Chairs:
  • Xinru Page (Brigham Young University, USA)
  • Guo Freeman (Clemson University, USA)
  • Contact: chairs2026@cscw.acm.org