Paper Awards and Recognitions

Awards and recognitions for CSCW are based on nominations by ACs and reviewers during the paper review processes, and chosen by a separate Awards Committee later. The awards evaluation process is blinded, and the 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 3%. 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. Methods Recognitions are for strong examples of work that includes well developed, explained, or implemented methods, and/or methodological innovation, and Impact Recognitions are for strong examples of work that demonstrates or has clear potential to demonstrate real-world or practical impact.

Lasting Impact Award

Faltering from Ethnography to Design
John Hughes, Dave Randall, and Dan Shapiro. 

Impact Recognition

Mending the Fabric: the Contentious, Collaborative Work of Repairing Broadband Maps
Beatriz Palacios Abad, Elizabeth Belding, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Ellen Zegura

Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions
Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Minh Chau Mai, Jeff Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein

DEI Recognition

An Intersectional Lifecourse Lens and Participatory Methods as the Foundations for Co-Designing with and For Minoritised Older Adults
Alice Willatt, Stuart Iain Gray, Helen Manchester, Tot Foster, Kirsten Cater

Governance of the Black Experience on Reddit: r/BlackPeopleTwitter as a Case Study in Supporting Sense of Virtual Community for Black Users
C. Estelle Smith, Shamika Klassen, Gale H. Prinster, Chenhao Tan, Brian C. Keegan

Race and Privacy in Broadcast Police Communications
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Christopher Graziul, Miranda Ardith Goodman, Samantha Nicole Kenny, Shomir Wilson

“Because Some Sighted People, They Don’t Know What the Heck You’re Talking About:” A Study of Blind Tokers’ Infrastructuring Work to Build Independence
Yao Lyu, John M. Carroll

“I felt like I was doing grown-up things”: Young Adult Reflections on their Childhood Experiences of Online Searching and Brokering in Immigrant Families
Anh Le, Michelle Ma, Linh Bui, Anna Shi, Linh Pham, Carmen Gonzalez, Jason C. Yip

Dismantling Gender Blindness in Online Discussion of a Crime/Gender Dichotomy
Yigang Qin, Weilun Duan, Qunfang Wu, Zhicong Lu

Better than Google’: Information Activism for LGBTQ+ Young Adults in a Rural Community
Anne Jonas, Stefani Vargas, Jean Hardy

The Subtleties of Self-Presentation: A study of sensitive disclosure among sexual minority adolescents
Annika Pinch, Jeremy Birnholtz, Kathryn Macapagal, Ashley Kraus, David Moskowitz

“We’re Not in That Circle of Misinformation”: Understanding Community-Based Trusted Messengers Through Cultural Code-Switching
Amy Z. Chen, Chaeeun Park, Asantewaa Darkwa, Rhonda C. Holliday, Michael L. Best

Field Trial of a Tablet-based AR System for Intergenerational Connections through Remote Reading
Ye Yuan, Peter Genatempo, Qiao Jin, Svetlana Yarosh

When Workers Want to Say No: A View into Critical Consciousness and Workplace Democracy in Data Work
Carl Disalvo, Annabel Rothschild, Lara L. Schenck, Ben Rydal Shapiro, Besty Disalvo

A Cross Community Comparison of Muting in Conversations of Gendered Violence on Reddit
Jasmine C Foriest, Shravika Mittal, Kirsten Bray, Anh-Ton Tran, Munmun De Choudhury

Gaining Technological Autonomy and Soci-emotional Support: A Case Study of How and Why Chinese Older Adults Engage with a Semi-acquaintance Online Community
Zhigu Qian, Jiaojiao Fu, Yangfan Zhou
El costo de la independencia: Latino house-cleaners in Technology-Mediated Labour Markets
Isabella Jaimes Rodriguez, Adrian Petterson, Olivia Doggett, Priyank Chandra

Experiences from Running a Participatory Media Platform for Women and Led by Women in Rural North India
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sayonee Chatterjee, Rajeshwari Tripathi, Akshay Gupta, Aaditeshwar Seth

Linguistically Differentiating Acts and Recalls of Racial Microaggressions on Social Media
Uma Sushmitha Gunturi, Anisha Kumar, Xiaohan Ding, Eugenia H. Rho

Best Paper

Mending the Fabric: the Contentious, Collaborative Work of Repairing Broadband Maps
Beatriz Palacios Abad, Elizabeth Belding, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Ellen Zegura

Sounds Good? Fast and Secure Contact Exchange in Groups
Florentin Putz, Steffen Haesler, Matthias Hollick

Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions
Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Minh Chau Mai, Jeff Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein

From Awareness to Action: Exploring End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX
Yuwen Lu, Chao Zhang, Yuewen Yang, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li

StyleWe: Towards Style Fusion in Generative Fashion Design with Efficient Federated AI
Di Wu, Mingzhu Wu, Yeye Li, Jianan Jiang, Xinglin Li, Hanhui Deng, Can Liu, Yi Li

Honorable mentions

PressProtect: Helping Journalists Navigate Social Media in the Face of Online Harassment
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric

“I Upload… All Types of Different Things to Say the World of Blindness Is More Than What They Think It Is”: A Study of Blind TikTokers’ Identity Work from a Flourishing Perspective
Yao Lyu, Jie Cai, Bryan Dosono, Davis Yadav, John M. Carroll

Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community
Kejsi Take, Victoria Zhong, Chris Geeng, Emmi Bevensee, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt

Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI
Houjiang Liu, Anubrata Das, Alexander Boltz, Didi Zhou, Daisy Pinaroc, Matthew Lease, Min Kyung Lee

Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments
Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, Michael S. Bernstein

Computers as Bad Social Actors: Dark Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Interfaces that Act Socially
Lize Alberts, Ulrik Lyngs, Max Van Kleek

“They Make Us Old Before We’re Old”: Designing Ethical Health Technology with and for Older Adults
Jianna So, Samantha Estrada, Matthew Jörke, Eva Bianchi, Maria Wang, Nava Haghighi, Kristen L Fessele, James A. Landay, Andrea Cuadra

Why I Choose This Sticker When Chatting with You: Exploring Design Considerations for Sticker Recommendation Services in Mobile Instant Messengers
Gahyeon Bae, Daehyun Kwa, Youn-kyung Lim

Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel
Joseph Seering, Manas Khadka, Nava Haghighi, Tanya Yang, Zachary Xi, Michael S. Bernstein

Investigating Security Folklore: A Case Study on the Tor over VPN Phenomenon
Matthias Fassl, Alexander Ponticello, Adrian Dabrowski, Katharina Krombholz

Mindful Explanations: Prevalence and Impact of Mind Attribution in XAI Research
Susanne Hindennach, Lei Shi, Filip Miletić, Andreas Bulling

Value Tensions in OpenStreetMap: Openness, Membership, and Policy in Online Communities
Aarjav Chauhan, Dipto Sarkar, Taneea S Agrawaal, Robert Soden

Making Data Work Count
Srravya Chandhiramowuli, Alex S Taylor, Sara Heitlinger, Ding Wang

Awards Committee

Tianying Chen
Melissa Rogerson
Jack Jamieson
Danae Metaxa
Robin Brewer
Guo Freeman
Douglas Zytko
Amy Zhang
Katie Shilton
Jorge Goncalves
Bongwon Suh
Daniel Gooch
Ignacio Avellino
Niels van Berkel
Bridget Kane
Pawel Wozniak
Sunyoung Kim
Michael Twidale
Jasmin Niess
Shiwei Cheng

Lasting Impact Committee

Beki Grinter
Uichin Lee
Luigina Ciolfi
Naomi Yamashita