CSCW 2026 LASTING IMPACT AWARD

Nominations are open for the CSCW 2026 Lasting Impact Award — due 15 May (anywhere on earth).

The Lasting Impact Award recognizes CSCW research that has stood the test of time, continuing to shape scholarship and practice years after publication. Anyone in the CSCW community can submit a nomination.

What paper published at the CSCW conference, from 2016 or earlier, has had profound impact on your research and/or the field of CSCW as a whole? 

Please nominate it! Nominations involve a short (150-300 word) statement about the paper’s impact, as well as (optional) suggestions of panelists to reflect on the work.

Papers can be nominated here.

We also want to take this opportunity to celebrate past winners:

• 2025: Jill Dimond, Michaelanne Thomas (formerly Dye), Daphne LaRose, Amy Bruckman. “Hollaback!: The Role of Collective Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization” (2013)
• 2024: John Hughes, Dave Randall, and Dan Shapiro. “Faltering from Ethnography to Design” (1992)
• 2023: Nicole Ellison and Cliff Lampe for their body of work investigating social capital in social media.
• 2022: Robert Kraut, Carmen Egido, and Jolene Galegher. “Patterns of contact and communication in scientific research collaboration” (1988)
• 2021: Steve Harrison and Paul Dourish. “Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems” (1996)
• 2020: Stacey D. Scott, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, and Kori Inkpen. “Territoriality in collaborative tabletop workspaces” (2004)
• 2019: Paul Resnick, Neophytos Iacovou, Mitesh Suchak, Peter Bergstrom, and John Riedl. “GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews” (1994)
• 2018: Bonnie Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Erin Bradner. “Interaction and Outeraction: Instant Messaging in Action!” (2000)
• 2017: Paul Heath & Christian Luff. “Mobility in Collaboration” (1998)
• 2016: Paul Dourish and Victoria Bellotti. “Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces” (1992)
• 2015: Wanda Orlikowski. “Learning from Notes: organizational issues in groupware implementation” (1992)
• 2014: Jonathan Grudin. “Why CSCW Applications Fail: Problems in the Design and Evaluation of Organizational Interfaces” (1988)
• 2013: Susan Leigh Star and Karen Ruhleder. “Steps towards an ecology of infrastructure: complex problems in design and access for large-scale collaborative systems" (1994)