CSCW 2026 PAPERS MAY 2025 CYCLE FINAL DECISIONS

We're excited that the final round of CSCW 2026 paper reviewing has wrapped up. The bulk of decisions were sent on March 18, 2026. Some of those submissions were asked to provide one final round of minor revisions, which were re-evaluated only by the senior program committee member assigned to the paper. The bulk of those decisions were sent on April 10, 2026.

As explained in our previous blog post, CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle received 637 complete submissions. After the Assisted Desk Reject phase, 325 papers advanced to the first round of review. Among them, the authors of 11 papers withdrew their submissions and did not submit a revised version. In total, 314 papers were reviewed in the first round. After this round, 42 papers were conditionally accepted with minor changes, and 209 papers were recommended for Revise and Resubmit (see more details in this blog post).

In the second and final round of review, each of these 209 Revise and Resubmit papers was carefully evaluated by the same Senior Program Committee (SPC), Program Committee (PC) member, and two external reviewers who had reviewed the paper in the previous round of review and revision. Over the past two weeks, committee members and reviewers have been working together to reach final decisions on every paper.

Accept (152 papers): 61 of these were fully accepted in March and 91 were asked to resubmit with minor changes. The final version of these 91 papers were submitted for approval by the corresponding SPC and all were ultimately promoted to an accepted paper.

Reject (44 papers): Submissions that received this decision were not ready for publication. Authors of rejected papers can consider whether to resubmit their papers to CSCW 2027 or other venues in the future.

Below, Figure 1 and Table 1 show the breakdown in paper decisions among the 209 Revise and Resubmit papers reviewed in the final round.

Figure 1: Paper decisions among the 209 Revise and Resubmit papers reviewed in the final round

Table 1: Paper decisions among the 209 Revise and Resubmit papers reviewed in the final round

Figure 2 and Table 2 below provide more details on paper decisions by contribution type for the 209 papers reviewed in the final round.

Figure 2: Paper decisions by contribution type for the 209 papers reviewed in the final round

Table 2: Paper decisions by contribution type for the 209 papers reviewed in the final round

Below, Figure 3 and Table 3 show the breakdown of final paper decisions for the 637 complete submissions to the CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle.

Figure 3: Final paper decisions among the 637 complete submissions to CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle.

Table 3: Final paper decisions among the 637 complete submissions to CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle

Figure 4 and Table 4 below provide further details on the final decisions for each contribution type across the 637 papers reviewed.

Figure 4: Final decisions for each contribution type across the 637 complete submissions to CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle

Table 4: Final decisions for each contribution type across the 637 complete submissions to CSCW 2026 May 2025 cycle

As explained in this blog, CSCW 2026 has made adjustments to our peer review process outlined in the Call for Papers, including: (1) Introducing a Senior Program Committee (SPC) and a Program Committee (PC), (2) Refining the Desk Rejects/Assisted Desk Rejects phase, (3) Adding online Program Committee meetings (one for the Assisted Desk Reject phase and the other for the Resubmission of papers that received a Revise for External Review recommendation), and (4) Refining the External Review cycle. As a reminder, details about CSCW 2026’s peer review process, timeline, and frequently asked questions (e.g., “Why is the timeline so long?”) can be found in our blog published last year.

We acknowledge that this new process and structure inherently posed many challenges. Such a process also took much time and effort — this is the trade-off to maintaining a high level of quality in the CSCW peer review process. We hope that our efforts help build a strong papers program for CSCW 2026 and provide valuable lessons for our peers and other SIGCHI conferences on how to improve and sustain high-quality peer review in HCI.

Congratulations to all authors of accepted submissions. We look forward to your presentations at CSCW 2026 in Salt Lake City! We also hope that the final round reviews will provide all authors with constructive feedback on how to improve their submissions, so they can be revised, resubmitted, and accepted at other venues. We thank our dedicated team of SPCs, PCs, external reviewers, and paper authors for investing their precious time in our review process and timeline and for contributing to the growth of the CSCW community.

PAPERS CHAIRS
Contact: papers2026@cscw.acm.org

• Kurt Luther (Virginia Tech, USA)
• Xiaojuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR)
• Jeffrey Nichols (Apple, USA)
• Adriana S Vivacqua (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

PAPERS CHAIRS ASSISTANTS

• Yoonseo Choi (KAIST, South Korea)
• Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Virginia Tech, USA)

GENERAL CHAIRS
Contact: chairs2026@cscw.acm.org

• Guo Freeman (Clemson University, USA)
• Xinru Page (Brigham Young University, USA)