Awards & Recognitions

Lasting Impact Award

The Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and the decision is made by a committee of senior CSCW scholars. This year’s committee consisted of Rosta Farzan, Denis Helic, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Xinru Page, Pam Wisniewski, and Michael Zimmer.

We’re pleased to announce that the 2021 Lasting Impact Award goes to Steve Harrison and Paul Dourish for their 1996 paper, “Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems.”

Awards & Recognitions

Beginning last year, awards and recognitions for CSCW are based on nominations by all CSCW reviewers, and chosen by a separate Awards Committee. The awards evaluation process is blinded, and committee members score papers based on both their own evaluation and the evaluations of the original reviewers, including reasons given for nominations.

Best Paper Awards represent 1% of all submitted papers, and Honorable Mentions represent another 4%. Recognitions for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion represent strong examples of work that focuses on or serves minorities, otherwise excluded individuals or populations, or intervenes in systemic structures of inequality, and selection of these recognitions were overseen by Equity and Accessibility Co-Chairs Jean Hardy and Kate Ringland. We also have two new recognitions this year: Methods Recognitions for strong examples of work that includes well developed, explained, or implemented methods, and/or methodological innovation, and Impact Recognitions for strong examples of work that demonstrates or has clear potential to demonstrate real-world or practical impact.

Best Paper Awards

“Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder”
Douglas Zytko, Oakland University, Nicholas Furlo, Oakland University, Bailey Carlin, Oakland University, Matt Archer, Oakland University

“Do Datasets Have Politics? Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development”
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, University of Colorado Boulder; Alex Hanna, Google; Emily Denton, Google

“Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: Exploring Experiential Knowledge and Assets of Family Caregivers”
Ji Youn Shin, Michigan State University; Dima Chaar, University of Michigan; Catherine Elizabeth Davis, Michigan State University; Sung Won Choi, University of Michigan; Hee Rin Lee, Michigan State University

“Integrating Cultural Relevance into a Behavioral mHealthIntervention for Native American Youth”
Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Northern Arizona University; Ann Futterman Collier, Northern Arizona University; Shelby Hagemann, Northern Arizona University; Giovanni Castillo, Northern Arizona University; Keller Mikkelson, Northern Arizona University; Joshua Dingman, Northern Arizona University; Andrew Muñoz, Northern Arizona University; Jade Luther, Northern Arizona University; Alexandra McLaughlin, Northern Arizona University

“Interdependence in Action: People with Visual Impairments and their Guides Co-constituting Common Spaces”
Beatrice Vincenzi, Centre for HCID, City, University of London; Alex S. Taylor, Centre for HCID, City, University of London; Simone Stumpf, Centre for HCID, City, University of London

“Reflect, not Regret: Understanding Regretful Smartphone Use with App Feature-Level Analysis”
Hyunsung Cho, Carnegie Mellon University; DaEun Choi, KAIST; Donghwi Kim, KAIST; Wan Ju Kang, KAIST; Eun Kyoung Choe, University of Maryland, College Park; Sung-Ju Lee, KAIST

“Resisting Racism in Tech Design: Centering the Experiences of Black Youth”
Yolanda A. Rankin, Florida State University; Kallayah K Henderson, Northwestern University

“Seeing Like an Infrastructure: Low-resolution Citizens and the Aadhaar Identification Project”
Ranjit Singh, Data & Society Research Institute; Steven Jackson, Cornell University

“‘The Network Is an Excuse’: Hardware Maintenance Supporting Community”
Philip Garrison, University of Washington; Esther Han Beol Jang, University of Washington; Michael A Lithgow, Athabasca University; Nicolás Andrés, Pace Universidad Nacional del Sur

“Time for Historicism in CSCW: An Invitation”
Robert Soden, University of Toronto; David Ribes University of Washington; Seyram Avle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Will Sutherland, University of Washington

“To Reuse or Not To Reuse? A Framework and System for Evaluating Summarized Knowledge”
Michael Xieyang Liu, Carnegie Mellon University; Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University; Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University

“Towards Accessible Remote Work: Understanding Work-from-Home Practices of Neurodivergent Professionals”
Maitraye Das, Northwestern University; John Tang, Microsoft Research Labs; Kathryn E. Ringland, University of California, Santa Cruz; Anne Marie Piper, University of California, Irvine

Honorable Mentions

“Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms”
Michael Ann DeVito, University of Colorado Boulder

“A Framework of High-Stakes Algorithmic Decision-Making for the Public Sector Developed through a Case Study of Child-Welfare”
Devansh Saxena, Marquette University; Karla Badillo-Urquiola, University of Central Florida; Pamela J. Wisniewski, University of Central Florida; Shion Guha, University of Toronto

“Algorithmic Folk Theories and Identity: How TikTok Users Co-Produce Knowledge of Identity and Engage in Algorithmic Resistance”
Nadia Karizat, University of Michigan; Daniel Delmonaco, University of Michigan; Motahhare Eslami, Carnegie Mellon University; Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan

“Amplifying Community-led Violence Prevention as a Counter to Structural Oppression”
Jessa Dickinson, DePaul University; Madison R Shiparski, DePaul University; Alejandra C. Gonzalez, DePaul University; Sheena Erete, DePaul University

“Challenging Passive Social Media Use: Older Adults as Caregivers Online”
Robin N. Brewer, University of Michigan; Sarita Schoenebeck, University of Michigan; Kerry Lee, University of Michigan; Haripriya Suryadevara, University of Michigan

“Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities”
Shruti Vikas Phadke, University of Washington; Mattia Samory, GESIS; Tanushree Mitra, University of Washington

“Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies “
Amid Ayobi, University of Bristol; Katarzyna Stawarz, Cardiff University; Dmitri Katz, The Open University; Paul Marshall, University of Bristol; Taku Yamagata, University of Bristol; Raul Santos-Rodriguez, University of Bristol; Peter Flach, University of Bristol and The Alan Turing Institute; Aisling Ann O’Kane, University of Bristol

“Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum”
Nikita Soni, University of Florida; Ailish Tierney, University of Florida; Katarina Jurczyk, University of Florida; Schuyler Gleaves, University of Florida; Elisabeth Schreiber, University of Florida; Kathryn A. Stofer, University of Florida; Lisa Anthony, University of Florida

“Computer-Supported Knotworking: Design guidelines based on two case studies from the healthcare domain”
Khuloud ABOU AMSHA, UTT; Claus Bossen, Aarhus University; Erik Grönvall, IT University of Copenhagen; Myriam Lewkowicz, UTT

“Conceptualizing Hyperlocal Information Systems for Developing Countries”
Muzayun Mukhtar, Google Inc.; Arjun Singh, Google Inc.; Erin Arnesen, Google Inc.; Saurabh Srivastava, Google Inc.

“Cross-platform Information Operations: Mobilizing Narratives & Building Resilience through both ‘Big’ & ‘Alt’ Tech”
Tom Wilson, University of Washington; Kate Starbird, University of Washington

“Datasheets for Datasets help ML engineers notice and understand ethical issues in training data”
Karen L. Boyd, University of Michigan

“Data Subjects’ Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Automatic Emotion Recognition-Enabled Wellbeing Interventions on Social Media”
Kat Roemmich, University of Michigan; Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan

“Dignity, autonomy, and style of company: Dimensions older adults consider for robot companions”
Simon Coghlan, The University of Melbourne; Jenny Waycott, The University of Melbourne; Amanda Lazar, University of Maryland, College Park; Barbara Barbosa Neves, Monash University

“Disproportionate Removals and Differing Content Moderation Experiences for Conservative, Transgender, and Black Social Media Users: Marginalization and Moderation Gray Areas”
Oliver L. Haimson, University of Michigan; Daniel Delmonaco, University of Michigan; Peipei Nie, University of Michigan; Andrea Wegner, University of Michigan

“Do Platform Migrations Harm the Effectiveness of Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels”
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, EPFL; Shagun Jhaver, Rutgers University; Savvas Zannettou, Max Planck Institute; Jeremy Blackburn, Binghamton University; Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London; Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University; Robert West, EPFL

“Effective Strategies for Crowd-Powered Cognitive Reappraisal Systems: A Field Deployment of the Flip*Doubt Web Application for Mental Health”
C. Estelle Smith, University of Minnesota; William Lane, University of Minnesota; Hannah Miller, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Daniel Kluver, University of Minnesota; Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota; Svetlana Yarosh, University of Minnesota

“Efficiency and Care in Community-led Initiatives”
Chiara Rossitto, Stockholm University; Henrik Korsgaard, Aarhus University; Airi Lampinen, Stockholm University; Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University

“Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter”
Shagun Jhaver, Rutger University; Christian Boylston, Georgia Institute of Technology; Diyi Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Exploring Email-Prompted Information Needs”
Joey Chiao-Yin Hsiao, Yahoo; Frank Bentley, Yahoo

“Exploring the Utility Versus Intrusiveness of Dynamic Audience Selection on Facebook”
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephanie S Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Yuxi Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rachel Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kristen Wells, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sauvik Das, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Formation of Social Ties Predicts Food Choice: A Campus-wide Longitudinal Study”
Kristina Gligorić, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; Ryen W White Microsoft Research; Emre Kiciman Microsoft Research; Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research; Arnaud Chiolero, University of Fribourg; Robert West, EPFL

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital”
Debora de Castro Leal, University of Siegen; Max Krüger University of Siegen, Siegen; Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, MIT; Amparo Caicedo Concejo, Nacional de Partido Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común; Carlos Gómez; Dave Randall, University of Siegen; Volker Wulf, University of Siegen

“How to Evaluate Trust in AI-Assisted Decision Making? A Survey of Empirical Methodologies”
Oleksandra Vereschak, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR; Gilles Bailly, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR; Baptiste Caramiaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR

“Infrastructuring Telehealth in (In)Formal Patient-Doctor Contexts”
Karthik S Bhat, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mohit Jain, Microsoft Research; Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology

“’Jol’ or ’Pani’?: How Does Governance Shape a Platform’s Identity?”
Dipto Das, University of Colorado Boulder; Carsten Østerlund, Syracuse University; Bryan Semaan, University of Colorado Boulder

“Join, Stay or Go? A Closer Look at Members’ Life Cycles in Online Health Communities”
Zheng Yao, Carnegie Mellon University; Diyi Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; John M. Levine, University of Pittsburgh; Carissa A. Low, University of Pittsburgh; Tenbroeck Smith, American Cancer Society, Inc.; Haiyi Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon University

“Legibility and the Legacy of Racialized Dispossession in Digital Agriculture”
Jen Liu, Cornell University; Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University

“More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter”
Shamika Klassen, University of Colorado Boulder; Sara Kingsley, Carnegie Mellon University; Kalyn McCall, Harvard University; Joy Weinberg, University of Colorado Boulder; Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder

“Negotiating Repairedness: How Artifacts Under Repair Become Contingently Stabilized”
Ju Yeon Jung, University of Michigan; Tom Steinberger, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; John L. King, University of Michigan; Mark S. Ackerman, University of Michigan

“Social, Environmental, and Technical: Factors at play in the current use and future design of small-group captioning”
Emma J. McDonnell, University of Washington; Ping Liu, University of Washington; Steven M. Goodman, University of Washington; Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University; Jon E. Froehlich, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington

“Speculation and the Design of Development”
Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University; Kaiton Williams, Impact America Fund; Vera Khovanskaya, University of California San Diego

“Supporting collaborative reflection on personal values and health”
Andrew B.L. Berry, University of Washington; Catherine Y. Lim, 98point6; Calvin A. Liang, University of Washington; Andrea L. Hartzler,University of Washington; Tad Hirsch, Northeastern University
Dawn M. Ferguson, Kaiser Permanente; Zoë A. Bermet, Kaiser Permanente; James D. Ralston, Kaiser Permanente

“Tactics of Soft Resistance in User Experience Professionals’ Values Work”
Richmond Y. Wong, University of California Berkeley

“The UX Factor: Using Comparative Peer Review to Evaluate Designs through User Preferences”
Sarah Bawabe, Brown University; Laura Wilson, Brown University; Tongyu Zhou, Brown University; Ezra Marks, Brown University; Jeff Huang, Brown University

“Two Cases for Traces: A Theoretical Framing of Mediated Joint Activity”
Mirzel Avdić, Aarhus University; Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University; Ida Larsen-Ledet, Aarhus University

“Understanding Tensions and Resilient Practices that Emerge from Technology Use in Asian India Families in the U.S.: The Case of COVID-19”
Radhika Garg, Syracuse University

“‘We Would Never Write That Down’: Classifications of Unemployed and Data Challenges for AI”
Anette C. M. Petersen, IT University of Copenhagen; Lars Rune Christensen, IT University of Copenhagen; Richard Harper, Lancaster University; Thomas T. Hildebrandt, University of Copenhagen

“’What is the Topic of the Group, Please?’ On Migration, Care and the Challenges of Participation in Design “
Max Krüger, University of Siegen; Anne Weibert, University of Siegen; Debora de Castro Leal, University of Siegen; Dave Randall, University of Siegen; Volker Wulf, University of Siegen

“What’s in a Network? Infrastructures of Mutual Aid for Digital Platform Workers during COVID-19”
Rida Qadri, MIT

“Why do people participate in small online communities?”
Sohyeon Hwang, Northwestern University; Jeremy D. Foote, Purdue University

Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion

“Amplifying Community-led Violence Prevention as a Counter to Structural Oppression”
Jessa Dickinson, DePaul University; Madison R Shiparski, DePaul University; Alejandra C. Gonzalez, DePaul University; Sheena Erete, DePaul University

“Computer-Mediated Peer Support Needs of Home Care Workers: Emotional Labor & the Politics of Professionalism”
Anthony Poon, Cornell University; Vaidehi Hussain, Cornell University; Julia Loughmanm, Tufts University; Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University; Madeline Sterling, Weill Cornell Medicine; Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech

“Dissemination, Situated Fact-checking, and Social Effects of Misinformation among Rural Bangladeshi Villagers During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Sharifa Sultana, Cornell University; Susan R. Fussell, Cornell University

“‘Jol’ or ‘Pani’?: How Does Governance Shape a Platform’s Identity?”
Dipto Das, University of Colorado Boulder; Carsten Østerlund, Syracuse University; Bryan Semaan, University of Colorado Boulder

“Resisting Racism in Tech Design: Centering the Experiences of Black Youth”
Yolanda A. Rankin, Florida State University; Kallayah K Henderson, Northwestern University

“Seeing Like an Infrastructure: Low-resolution Citizens and the Aadhaar Identification Project”
Ranjit Singh, Data & Society Research Institute; Steven Jackson, Cornell University

“Social, Environmental, and Technical: Factors at play in the current use and future design of small-group captioning”
Emma J McDonnell, University of Washington; Ping Liu, University of Washington; Steven M. Goodman, University of Washington; Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University; Jon E. Froehlich, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington

“The Narrative Tapestry Design Process: Weaving Online Social Support from Stories of Stigma”
Joshua Introne, Syracuse University; Isabel Munoz, Syracuse University; Bryan Semaan, University of Colorado Boulder

“Understanding Accessibility and Collaboration in Programming for People with Visual Impairments”
Maulishree Pandey, University of Michigan; Vaishnav Kameswaran, University of Michigan; Hrishikesh V. Rao, University of Michigan; Sile O’Modhrain, University of Michigan; Steve Oney, University of Michigan

Methods Recognition

“A Method to Analyze the Multiple Social Identities in Twitter Bios”
Arjunil Pathak, University at Buffalo; Navid Madani, University at Buffalo; Kenneth Joseph, University at Buffalo

“An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design”
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Carnegie Mellon University; Eric Kaltman, California State University Channel Islands; Emek Erdolu, Carnegie Mellon University; Zachary Furste, Carnegie Mellon University

“Datasheets for Datasets help ML engineers notice and understand ethical issues in training data”
Karen L Boyd, University of Michigan

“On the state of reporting in crowdsourcing experiments and a checklist to aid current practices”
Jorge Ramírez, University of Trento; Burcu Sayin, University of Trento; Marcos Baez, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Fabio Casati, Servicenow, USA.; Luca Cernuzzi, Catholic University Nuestra Señora de la Asunción; Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales; Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland

“Understanding Driver’s Perspective for Vehicular Crowdsensing”
Dhruv Agarwal, Microsoft Research; Srishti Agarwal, Ashoka University; Vidur Singh, Ashoka University; Rohita Kochupillai, Three Wheels United; Rosemary Pierce-Messick, Three Wheels United; Srinivasan Iyengar, Microsoft Research; Mohit Jain, Microsoft Research

Impact Recognition

“‘@alex, this fixes #9’: Analysis of Referencing Patterns in Pull Request Discussions”
Ashish Chopra, University of British Columbia; Morgan Mo, University of British Columbia; Samuel Dodson, University of Buffalo; Ivan Beschastnikh, University of British Columbia; Sidney S Fels, University of British Columbia; Dongwook Yoon, University of British Columbia

“Cocode: Providing Social Presence with Co-learner Screen Sharing in Online Programming Classes”
Jeongmin Byun, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Jungkook Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Alice Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

“Hugging with a Shower Curtain: Older Adults’ Social Support Realities During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Novia Nurain, Indiana University Bloomington; Chia-Fang Chung, Indiana University Bloomington; Clara Caldeira, Indiana University Bloomington; Kay Connelly, Indiana University Bloomington

“Image Cropping on Twitter: Fairness Metrics, their Limitations, and the Importance of Representation, Design, and Agency”
Kyra Yee, Twitter; Uthaipon Tantipongpipat, Twitter; Shubhanshu Mishra, Twitter

“‘I’m a Professor, which isn’t usually a dangerous job’: Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers”
Periwinkle Doerfler, New York University; Andrea Forte, Drexel University; Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London; Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University; Jeremy Blackburn, Binghamton University; Damon McCoy, New York University

“Quantifying the Invisible Labor in Crowd Work”
Carlos Toxtli, Northeastern University & UNAM; Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research; Saiph Savage, Northeastern University & UNAM

“Reporting from the Community Beat: Practices for Moderating Online Discussion at a News Website”
Brian James McInnis, UC San Diego; Leah Ajmani, UC San Diego; Lu Sun, UC San Diego; Yiwen Hou, UC San Diego; Ziwen Zeng, UC San Diego; Steven P. Dow, UC San Diego

“Supporting collaborative reflection on personal values and health”
Andrew B.L. Berry, University of Washington; Catherine Y Lim, 98point6; Calvin Liang, University of Washington; Andrea Hartzler,University of Washington; Tad Hirsch, Northeastern University; Dawn Ferguson, Kaiser Permanente; Zoë Abigail Bermet, Kaiser Permanente; James Ralston, Kaiser Permanente

“The UX Factor: Using Comparative Peer Review to Evaluate Designs through User Preferences”
Sarah Bawabe, Brown University; Laura Wilson, Brown University; Tongyu Zhou, Brown University; Ezra Marks, Brown University; Jeff Huang, Brown University

“Towards Understanding and Supporting Journalistic Practices Using Semi-Automated News Discovery Tools”
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University; Daniel Trielli, Northwestern University; Grace Lee, Northwestern University

“Videoconference and Embodied VR: Communication Patterns Across Task and Medium”
Ahsan Abdullah, University of California Davis; Jan Kolkmeier, Universiteit Twente; Vivian Lo, Facebook Reality Labs; Michael Neff, Facebook Reality Labs

Awards Co-Chairs

Casey Fiesler
University of Colorado Boulder

Shion Guha
University of Toronto

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Awards Committee

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, University of Toronto
Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Cody Buntain, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Priyank Chandra, University of Toronto
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University
Colin Gray, Purdue University
Jean Hardy, Michigan State University
Denis Helic, TU Graz
Roberto Hoyle, Oberlin University
Yu Huang, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne
Ryan Kelly, University of Melbourne
Alex Leavitt, Facebook
Brian McInnis, University of California San Diego
Tanu Mitra, University of Washington
Matti Nelimarkka, University of Helsinki
Vineet Pandey, Harvard University
Kate Ringland, University of California Santa Cruz
Saiph Savage, Northeastern University
Emma Spiro, University of Washington
Angelika Strohmayer, Northumbria University
Xin Ton, Stanford University
Mark Whiting, University of Pennsylvania
Alex Williams, University of Tennessee Knoxville