IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: 27 March 2025, anywhere on earth
  • Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2025
  • Web description and camera-ready submission: 23 May 2025, anywhere on earth
  • Recruitment process completed: 25 August 2025, anywhere on earth
  • Workshop dates: 18-19 October 2025 

OVERVIEW

We invite you to submit proposals for workshops to be held at CSCW 2025, in Bergen, Norway. Workshops are pre-conference events to meet new attendees, share ideas, and discuss research. Workshops at CSCW 2025 are one-day events. 

Topics may be about anything relevant to the CSCW community. We encourage workshops for newer and more emergent areas and proposals that bring together diverse voices in our community, both in terms of organizers and participants. For instance, we expect workshop proposals to include organizers from a diverse team as much as possible. We define diversity as representing different parts of the world, institutions, research approaches, and identities. 

We encourage you to consider new and exciting formats that can use the workshop timeslot and format for creative and “non-traditional” workshops. In past CSCW conferences, this has included data or research jams, hackathon-style coding events, science slams, collaborative and open writing groups, and other non-traditional uses of the workshop format. 

The Workshop Chairs’ priority is to create a carefully curated workshop program that will appeal to diverse CSCW attendees. The Workshop Chairs will select CSCW workshops based on the quality of the proposal, the composition of the organizer team including the team’s diversity, the topical relevance, timeliness, and demonstrated ability to run the workshop successfully. 

Depending on the volume and composition of submissions, we may ask high-quality yet overlapping proposals to consider modifying their submissions, i.e., by combining organizing committees. You will be notified of any requests/changes upon notification/acceptance. 

WORKSHOP MODALITY CONSIDERATIONS

We encourage in-person workshops. That said, we understand that being in-person is not a possibility for all members of our community. As such, hybrid workshops are possible, with the goal of most organizers and participants attending in-person. Please note that the conference organizing team is not able to provide support for hybridity, and managing this aspect of a workshop is the workshop organizers’ responsibility. 

Workshop proposals should specifically address their intended modality and details on how they plan to execute an accessible and inclusive participation setup as well as the plan for how many participants are allowed to be online and which of the organizers will be online, if any. The proposal should include details of synchronous or asynchronous activities, communication tools used, pre-workshop activities to facilitate interaction, or other means of equitably connecting with in-person and hybrid participants. 

There is limited tech support for workshops of any modality, and organizers will be responsible for the technical execution of their plans. 

Please note that participants will pay the same registration fee for workshops regardless of modality. 

PROCEDURES

Workshop proposals should include an abstract and a detailed proposal in the ACM single-column format. The abstract should be no more than 200 words. The body of the proposal should be at most 3,000 words (excluding references). We require that proposal submissions are accessible. Please review the ACM’s references for organizing accessible conferences (e.g., SIGACCESS’s Accessible Conference Guide). For questions regarding accessibility please contact accessibility Co-Chairs at accessibility2025@cscw.acm.org. 

Proposals should include the following:

  • description of the theme(s) of the workshop and its significance/relevance to the CSCW community
  • workshop activities, goals, and proposed schedule for the day
  • whether the workshop will be in-person or hybrid and plans to support this execution (see above)
  • names and background of the organizer(s) including their relevance to the proposed workshop
  • maximum number of participants
  • procedures for recruiting and selecting participants
  • equipment and supplies needed to run the workshop

Please note that workshops receive minimal technology support. Once your workshop is accepted, you will have the opportunity to request basic supplies such as pens or big pads. That said, you will likely need to bring some of your supplies. There will be WiFi in the conference area. Organizers should plan to bring their equipment insofar as possible and necessary to execute the workshop (e.g., laptops, portable supplies). We strongly encourage workshop organizers to create web-based resources for their workshops so that advertising, submission, and organization can be handled online.

Workshop proposals should be submitted by Thursday, 27 March 2025 AoE. 

To submit, please use the Precision Conference System (PCS) 2.0: https://new.precisionconference.com (Please ensure you are in the CSCW workshop track when submitting.) The conference is using the ACM Publication System (TAPS) process; all workshop proposals should follow the instructions and use the Word/LaTeX Master Article templates located here. 

Organizers will be notified whether their workshop has been accepted on Wednesday, 7 May 2025. Due to the multifaceted criteria for creating a workshop program, reviews will not be sent to potential workshop organizers. 

By Friday 16, May 2025 AoE, accepted workshops must provide to web2025@cscw.acm.org a short web description of the workshop for the conference website containing: 

  • the workshop title
  • names and affiliations of organizers
  • 200-word abstract
  • workshop website link

A final workshop description will be published in the ACM Digital Library and distributed to all conference attendees in the Conference Proceedings Companion. This workshop description should use the Word/Latex templates located here and must be submitted on PCS by Friday, 23 May 2025 AoE.

Organizers should complete the recruitment process and submit a final headcount to the Workshop Co-Chairs by Monday, 25 August 2025 AoE.

Questions concerning workshop proposals should be directed to the CSCW 2025 Workshop Co-Chairs via workshops2025@cscw.acm.org.

Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan, United States of America

Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology, France, Europe

WORKSHOP ACCESSIBILITY

The CSCW 2025 Accessibility Co-Chairs are working closely with this year’s Workshop Co-Chairs in welcoming questions, feedback, or guidance about making workshops accessible. If questions related to accessibility arise, please direct them to accessibility2025@cscw.acm.org. 

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