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CSCW 2026 AWARDS

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's paper awards!

CSCW 2026 LASTING IMPACT AWARD

BEST PAPER AWARDS

  • Bridging Instead of Replacing Online Coding Communities with AI through Community-Enriched Chatbot Designs.
    Junling Wang (Department of Computer Science, ETH AI Center), Lahari Goswami (University of Lausanne), Gustavo Kreia Umbelino (ETH Zurich), Kiara Chau (ETH Zurich), Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich), April Yi Wang (ETH Zurich)
  • Voice to Vision: Enabling Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making through Participatory Data Infrastructure.
    Margaret Hughes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cassandra Overney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ashima Kamra (Wellesley College), Jasmin Tepale (New York City Department of City Planning), Elizabeth Hamby (New York City Department of City Planning), Mahmood Jasim (Louisiana State University), Deb Roy (MIT)
  • Impasse of Data-Drivenness: Bureaucratic Data Work and Reproduced Siloed Governance in Coordinating Smart Cities.
    Alex Jiahong Lu (Rutgers University), Yuling Sun (Fudan University)
  • Expecting Too Much, Getting Too Little: Exploring the Challenges and Design Opportunities of Asynchronous AI Interviewers.
    Md. Nazmus Sakib (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Naga Manogna Rayasam (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Sanorita Dey (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
  • We Need Granular Sharing of De-Identified Data—But Will Patients Engage? Investigating Health System Leaders' and Patients' Perspectives on A Patient-Controlled Data-Sharing Platform.
    Xi Lu (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Di Hu (University of California, Irvine), An T Nguyen (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Brad Morse (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Lisa M. Schilling (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Kai Zheng (University of California, Irvine), Michelle S Keller (University of Southern California), Lucila Ohno-Machado (Yale), Yunan Chen (University of California, Irvine)
  • From Mediation to Escalation: Buffer Spaces for Workplace Concern Reporting.
    Peiyao Liu (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lynn Dombrowski (Georgia Institute of Technology), Norman Makoto Su (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Postphenomenological Insights from an In-the-Wild Collective Sensing System Deployment for PTSD Therapy.
    Nathaniel Swinger (Georgia Institute of Technology), Myeonghan Ryu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cynthia M Baseman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Kefan Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Andrew M Sherrill (Emory University School of Medicine), Rosa I. Arriaga (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • YouCred: An Online Tool Co-Designed with Fact-Checkers for Misinformation Discovery on YouTube.
    Prerna Juneja (Seattle University), Dongkai Xie (University of Washington), Guangyin Ye (University of Washington), Tanushree Mitra (University of Washington)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

  • Shaping Collaborations with Algorithms: How Agency and Diversity Criteria Influence Team Formation and Outcomes.
    Diego Gómez-Zará (University of Notre Dame), Victoria A Kam (Northwestern University), Charles Chiang (University of Notre Dame), Jiarui Xia (University of Notre Dame), Ploenta Voraprukpisut (Northwestern University), Leslie A. DeChurch (Northwestern University), Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University)
  • Making the Internet Work: Case Study in a Socialist, Low-Income Country Under US Sanctions.
    Clara Rosa Cardoso (University of Siegen), Peter Tolmie (Universität Siegen), Kaoru Misaki (International Institute of Socio-Informatics), Volker Wulf (University of Siegen)
  • Beyond the Signature: Addressing Informed Consent Challenges in Dementia Technology-Based Research.
    Yvon Ruitenburg (Eindhoven University of Technology), Minha Lee (Eindhoven University of Technology), Wijnand IJsselsteijn (Eindhoven University of Technology), Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Designing Accessible Interfaces to Enhance Collective Musical Engagement for and with Children with Autism.
    Théo Jourdan (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS), Baptiste Caramiaux (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, ISIR), Alejandro VanZandt-Escobar (Brutpop Association)
  • Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools.
    Deepak Varuvel Dennison (Cornell University), Bakhtawar Ahtisham (Cornell University), Kavyansh Chourasia (Microsoft Research), Nirmit Arora (Microsoft Research), Rahul Singh (Microsoft Research), Rene F. Kizilcec (Cornell University), Akshay Nambi (Microsoft Research), Tanuja Ganu (Microsoft Research), Aditya Vashistha (Cornell University)
  • "I Just Don't Want My Work Being Fed Into The AI Blender": Queer Artists on Refusing and Resisting Generative AI.
    Jordan Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University), Joel Mire (Carnegie Mellon University), Alicia DeVrio (Carnegie Mellon University), Maarten Sap (Carnegie Mellon University), Haiyi Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University), Sarah E Fox (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Keeping Societies in the Loop: Citizen Dialogues on Facial Processing Technologies in Bolivia, India, Nigeria, Japan, and Germany.
    Chiara Ullstein (Technical University of Munich), Michel Hohendanner (Technical University of Munich), Jens Grossklags (Technical University of Munich), Olusola Babalola (Elizade University), Bukola Abimbola Onyekwelu (Elizade University), Amelia Katirai (Osaka University), Aimi Ozaki (Tsukuba University), Jun Kuribayashi (The University of Tokyo), Arisa Ema (The University of Tokyo), Nikhil Sharma (Technical University of Munich), Srija Naskar (National Law University Delhi), Nidhi Singh (National Law University Delhi), Indiana Karina Jordan Barros (Independent Researcher), Naira Paola Arnez Jordan (Technical University of Munich)
  • Situated Practice Systems: A Computational System for Supporting the Coaching and Practice of Self-Regulation Skills for Innovation Work.
    Kapil Garg (University of California, Irvine), Darren Gergle (Northwestern University), Haoqi Zhang (Northwestern University)
  • Constructing Algorithmic Authority: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) Govern Live-Streaming Labor in China.
    Qing Xiao (Carnegie Mellon University), Rongyi Chen (School of Humanities), Jingjia Xiao (University of California, San Diego), Tianyang Fu (The University of Texas at Austin), Alice Qian (Carnegie Mellon University), Xianzhe Fan (Tsinghua University), Bingbing Zhang (University of Iowa), Zhicong Lu (George Mason University), Hong Shen (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Re-Tell the Fortune so I Can Believe It: How Chinese User Communities Engage with and Interpret GenAI-based Fortune Telling.
    Long Ling (Tongji University), Xiyu Zheng (Tongji University), Gengchen Cao (Tsinghua-Anta Joint Research Center), RAY LC (City University of Hong Kong)
  • To Tango or to Disentangle? Making Ethnography Public in the Digital Age.
    Daniel Mwesigwa (Cornell University), Cyan DeVeaux (Stanford University), Palashi Vaghela (Simon Fraser University)
  • CoNewsReader: Supporting Comprehensive Understanding and Raising Critical Thoughts on Social Media News Through Comments.
    Kangyu Yuan (Sun Yat-sen University), Guanzheng Chen (Zhejiang University), Sizhe Liang (Sun Yat-sen University), Hehai Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou), Qingyu Guo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dingdong Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Xiaojuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zhenhui Peng (Sun Yat-sen University)
  • Feeling that I was Collaborating with Them: A 20-year Scoping Review of Social Virtual Reality Leveraging Collaboration.
    Niloofar Sayadi (University of Notre Dame), Sadie Co (University of Notre Dame), Diego Gómez-Zará (University of Notre Dame)
  • FareShare: A Tool for Labor Organizers to Estimate Lost Wages and Contest Arbitrary AI and Algorithmic Deactivations.
    Varun Nagaraj Rao (Princeton University), Samantha Dalal (University of Colorado Boulder), Andrew Schwartz (Cornflower Labs), Amna Liaqat (Princeton University), Dana Calacci (Penn State University), Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Princeton University)
  • Gaze-to-Body: Addressing Expressive Gaps of Desktop Users in Hybrid VR Meetings through Gaze-Driven Head-Controlled Avatars.
    Ching Huang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Yu Chuan Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Meng Ting Shih (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Rong-Hao Liang (Eindhoven University of Technology), Liwei Chan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
  • Toward the Development of Online Spiritual Care Communities: A Large-Scale Survey of Spiritual Care Stakeholders to Establish Initial Design Directions, Acceptability, and Feasibility.
    Jesan Ahammed Ovi (Colorado School of Mines), Alemitu Bezabih (Colorado School of Mines), Anne-Marie Snider (California State University, Chico), Shadi Nourriz (Colorado School of Mines), Daniel McKenzie (Colorado School of Mines), C. Estelle Smith (Colorado School of Mines)

IMPACT RECOGNITION

  • One Question, Four Voices: How Advice for Alzheimer's Caregiving Differs Between Caregivers, Clinicians, and Large Language Models.
    Congning Ni (Vanderbilt University), Jinkyung Katie Park (Clemson University), Yang Li (Vanderbilt University), Sarvech Qadir (Vanderbilt University), Sean S. Huang (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), James Powers (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Julia A. Hiner (University of Texas Health Science Center), Vania Leung (University of Illinois Chicago), Patricia Commiskey (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Lijun Song (Vanderbilt University), Qingxia Chen (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Pamela J. Wisniewski (Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab), Bradley Adam Malin (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Zhijun Yin (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
  • Modular Multiplayer: Segmenting Gameplay into Autonomous Modules to Enable Catered Multiplayer Experiences.
    David Gonçalves (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa), João Cadete Nunes Godinho (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa), Pedro Trindade (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa), João Guerreiro (Universidade de Lisboa), Tiago Guerreiro (Universidade de Lisboa), André Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)
  • A Preemptive Pilot: Examining a City's Attempt to Manage Autonomous Delivery Robots Through a Real-World Deployment.
    Sarah E Fox (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Keeping Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) Alive: The Maintenance, Repair, and Care Practices to Ensure Functionality and Accessibility in an Emergency.
    Diane Lac (University of Edinburgh), Gareth Clegg (University of Edinburgh), John Vines (University of Edinburgh)
  • Mediating Infrastructural Competence: How Organizations Support Migrants' Hierarchy of Needs.
    Julia Dean (CU Boulder), Bryan Semaan (University of Colorado Boulder), Amy Voida (University of Colorado, Boulder)

METHOD RECOGNITION

  • Is Your Chatbot a Tourist or a Townie? Quantifying Geographic and Localness Disparities in LLM Representations of Place.
    Zihan Gao (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Jacob Thebault-Spieker (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  • Supporting Joint Attention and Body Alignment Between Remote Users Walking Outdoors.
    Takeru Yazaki (The University of Tokyo), Noriyasu Obushi (The University of Tokyo), Kuniharu Sakurada (The University of Tokyo), Hideaki Kuzuoka (The University of Tokyo), Masahiko Inami (The University of Tokyo)
  • Iterative Netnography and Occurrence for Rapid Research: A Case Study of TikTok.
    Nina Lutz (University of Washington), Kiera Hannuksela (University of Washington), Ethan Hynes (University of Washington), Celestine Le (University of Washington), Adriana Lopez (University of Washington), Danielle Lee Tomson (University of Washington)
  • "My Body Is Not Your Porn": Identifying Trends of Harm and Oppression through a Sociotechnical Genealogy of Digital Sexual Violence in South Korea.
    Haesoo Kim (Cornell University), Inha Cha (Georgia Institute of Technology), Seora Park (Indiana University Bloomington), Yeonju Jang (Cornell University), Joo Young Park (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), EunJeong Cheon (Syracuse University)

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) RECOGNITION

  • "A Source of Hope Online": Membership Curation by Staff to Protect Guarded Cliques Limits Access to Resources for Marginalized Communities on Discord.
    Erika Melder (Northeastern University), Emma Vonbuelow (Northeastern University), Ada Lerner (Northeastern University), Michael Ann DeVito (Northeastern University)
  • Voice to Vision: Enabling Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making through Participatory Data Infrastructure.
    Margaret Hughes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cassandra Overney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ashima Kamra (Wellesley College), Jasmin Tepale (New York City Department of City Planning), Elizabeth Hamby (New York City Department of City Planning), Mahmood Jasim (Louisiana State University), Deb Roy (MIT)
  • Making the Internet Work: Case Study in a Socialist, Low-Income Country Under US Sanctions.
    Clara Rosa Cardoso (University of Siegen), Peter Tolmie (Universität Siegen), Kaoru Misaki (International Institute of Socio-Informatics), Volker Wulf (University of Siegen)
  • Differential Benefits: The Impact of Computer Clubs in Palestine on Volunteers.
    George Yerousis (Birzeit University), Clara Rosa Cardoso (University of Siegen), Peter Tolmie (Universität Siegen), Konstantin Kosta Aal (University of Siegen), Iyad Tumar (Birzeit University), Volker Wulf (University of Siegen)
  • Sanctioned by Others: Remediating Knowledge Exclusion on Wikipedia Through Design.
    Leah Ajmani (University of Minnesota), Moyan Zhou (University of Minnesota), Tanja Andic (Wikimedia Foundation), Amber Erin Berson (Concordia University), Isaac Johnson (Wikimedia Foundation), Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington), Rebecca Maung (Wikimedia Foundation), Sneha Narayan (Carleton College), Sarah Severson (University of Alberta), Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota), Stevie Chancellor (University of Minnesota)
  • Toward a Multi-modal Understanding of Visual-Linguistic Design of Telop: A Computational Analysis of Telop Used in Korean YouTube Videos.
    Taeyoung Ko (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, UNIST), Kyungho Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, UNIST)
  • MeeVoice: Designing for Productive Participation and Engagement in Voice-based Platforms for Rural Workforces.
    Md Adnanul Islam (Monash University), Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra (Monash University, Indonesia), Dan Richardson (Monash University), Tom Bartindale (Northumbria University), Patrick Olivier (Monash University), Delvin Varghese (Monash University)