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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This is a preliminary program for CSCW 2026 in-person main conference. We have very limited ability to move presentations and sessions around due to the many scheduling constraints. However, email CSCW 2026 General Chairs Xinru Page and Guo Freeman (chairs2026@cscw.acm.org) by Friday Sept. 4 if you are scheduled for multiple presentations at the same time so we can look into alternatives.
The final program will be available on the SIGCHI web app at a later date. CSCW 2026 will also host an online presentation day on October 1–2, 2026 (depending on the time zone). The online program will be shared later.
Click a day below to expand its schedule.
Plenary / Keynote
Parallel Sessions
Break
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2026
9:00 – 9:30
Conference Opening and Chairs Welcome
9:30 – 10:30
Opening Plenary
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Parallel Sessions
Papers: Understanding Algorithms and Social Media
  • Understanding the Gap Between Stated and Revealed Preferences in Social Media News Feeds
  • Retheorizing Context Collapse for Social Media
  • Causal Language in Post Titles Shapes Deeper Topological Structures of Online Conversations
  • People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned
  • Toward a Multi-modal Understanding of Visual-Linguistic Design of Telop: A Computational Analysis of Telop Used in Korean YouTube Videos
Papers: Trauma, Harm, & Abuse
  • Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery: An Audit Study of Deepfakes
  • Wounded Again in Pursuit of Redress: Survivor Narratives of Image-Based Sexual Abuse in China
  • “My Body Is Not Your Porn”: Identifying Trends of Harm and Oppression through a Sociotechnical Genealogy of Digital Sexual Violence in South Korea
  • The Aftermath of Technology-Mediated Scams: Strengthening Older Adults’ Efforts toward Redress
Papers: Supporting Creative Work
  • Exploring the Impact of AI-powered Creativity Support Tools on Professional Creative Workflows
  • Generative AI as a Mediator in Creator Collaboration: Challenges, Design Opportunities and Concerns
  • (De)composing Craft: An Elementary Grammar for Sharing Expertise in Craft Workflows
  • BetaDAPR: An AI-based Expert Support System for Art Therapists with Qualitative and Quantitative Assistance
  • Designing Accessible Interfaces to Enhance Collective Musical Engagement for and with Children with Autism
Papers: Caregiving & Caregivers
  • Living in a Constant State of Flux: How Family Caregivers Navigate the Dementia Caregiving Journey
  • Situated Use and Negotiated Effectiveness: Critical Considerations of GenAI-Powered Reminiscence Intervention for People with Dementia
  • “The Only Thing Certain About This Is Uncertainty”: Exploring Informal Care Coordination Practices Among Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Understanding the Needs of Siblings of Autistic Individuals and the Role of Online Community Support
  • Giving Care, Seeking Help: Examining the Role of Online Social Platforms for Remote Mental Health Supporters
Papers: Navigating Virtual Environments
  • Social Presence in Remote Collaboration Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum
  • Studying Mobile Spatial Collaboration across Video Calls and Augmented Reality
  • Gaze-to-Body: Addressing Expressive Gaps of Desktop Users in Hybrid VR Meetings through Gaze-Driven Head-Controlled Avatars
  • Supporting Joint Attention and Body Alignment Between Remote Users Walking Outdoors
  • “Feeling that I Was Collaborating with Them:” A 20-Year Scoping Review of Social Virtual Reality Leveraging Collaboration
12:30 – 2:30
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Parallel Sessions
Panel: Industry-CSCW Dynamics in the Age of Generative AI: Perspectives on Future Trajectories of Academia-Industry Collaboration
SIG: Reconsidering Multi-sitedness: New Directions for Ethnography in the Age of AI
Papers: Content Creation & Creators
  • “In-Parallel with Someone Else”: Self-Employed Creative Careers Inspired by Social Media Influencers
  • “I Can’t Respond to Everyone”: An Empirical Investigation of Social Media Influencers’ Management of Controversies
  • Content Creation with Generative AI: How Do Content Creators Responsibly Use Generative AI Tools?
  • Watch Me Watch: Reaction Videos as a Social Form of Online Video Engagement
  • Constructing Algorithmic Authority: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) Govern Live-Streaming Labor in China
Papers: AI in Mental Health Support
  • “Is This Really a Human Peer Supporter?”: Misalignments Between Peer Supporters and Experts in LLM-Supported Interactions
  • Therapy as an NLP Task: Comparing LLMs and Human Peers’ Behaviors in CBT Sessions
  • Shared Similarity Between Humans and Chatbots: Exploring Human Willingness to Seek Social Support From Chatbots
  • “When I See Jodie, I Feel Relaxed”: Examining the Impact of a Virtual Supporter in Remote Psychotherapy
  • Relational Mediators: LLM Chatbots as Boundary Objects in Psychotherapy
Papers: Enhancing Learning
  • Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
  • Balancing Teacher and Student Agency: Control Distribution in a Co-Orchestration Tool for Dynamically Combining Individual and Collaborative Learning
  • “It’s Not a Daydreaming Center, It’s a School”: Exploring Conflicting Educational Purposes through Design Futures
  • Understanding Non-Professional Tutors’ Self-Development in Short-Relay Teaching
  • Bridging Instead of Replacing Online Coding Communities with AI through Community-Enriched Chatbot Designs
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Parallel Sessions
Session: Poster Lightning Talks
SIG: Living Through Another VR Winter: What Should CSCW Do with Social VR After the Metaverse Hype?
Papers: Data and Governance
  • Impasse of Data-Drivenness: Bureaucratic Data Work and Reproduced Siloed Governance in Coordinating Smart Cities
  • Managing through Closed Loops: The (Im)Possibility of Scale in China’s Data-driven Governance
  • Voice to Vision: Enabling Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making through Participatory Data Infrastructure
  • “The New Era of Tech-Enabled Traceability”: Recognizing the Tensions between the FDA’s Data Governance Vision and the Lived Realities of Food Producers
  • Environmental Justice Screening Tools: Current Practices and Future Directions
Papers: Communicating With/Through AI
  • Bridging Minds and Machines: Mapping the Terrain of Communication in Human-AI Teams — A Systematic Literature Review
  • “If They Don’t Even Trust Their AI Teammate, Why Should We?”: Understanding Trust Contagion Across Multiple Human-AI Teams
  • “Hi Alex” or “Dear Dr. Morgan”?: Exploring How AI-suggested Politeness Strategies Influence Email Writing and Social Perception Among Native and Non-native Speakers
  • Alleviating Linguistic and Interactional Anxiety of Non-Native Speakers in Multilingual Communication
  • ChatGPT Sensemaking and Appropriation in Everyday Life
Papers: Politics, Law, & Advocacy
  • Digital Expertise Under Pressure: The Evolution of IT Professionals’ Roles in Belarus’s Contemporary Protest Movement
  • Ctrl-F-Resist: Practices, Challenges, and Technical Needs of Civil Society Organizations Monitoring the Far-Right Online
  • From Mediation to Escalation: Buffer Spaces for Workplace Concern Reporting
  • “Law at Your Fingertips”: Understanding Legal Information Seeking on Video-Sharing Platforms in China
  • Making the Internet Work: Case Study in a Socialist, Low-Income Country Under US Sanctions
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Poster and Demo Reception (light appetizers)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026
9:00 – 10:30
Parallel Sessions
Session: Industry Lightning Talks
SIG: From Individual Guidance to Team Support: AI in XR Professional Training
Papers: AI-Assisted Healthcare
  • RECOVER: Designing a Large Language Model-based Remote Patient Monitoring System for Postoperative Gastrointestinal Cancer Care
  • What Is Most Important: The Tradeoffs of Structuring Value Documentation in Electronic Health Records
  • Orienting Participatory AI for Frontline Care Work: A Conceptual Framework for Technologists
  • Machine Semiology in Practice: Clinician Strategies for Interpreting AI-Generated Visual Explanations
  • One Question, Four Voices: How Advice for Alzheimer’s Caregiving Differs Between Caregivers, Clinicians, and Large Language Models
Papers: Sustaining Community Services
  • In the Meantime of Informal Care: Navigating Temporal Tensions in Timebanking
  • A Systematic Review of Knowledge Management in Community-based Social Service Organizations
  • Keeping Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) Alive: The Maintenance, Repair, and Care Practices to Ensure Functionality and Accessibility in an Emergency
  • Mediating Infrastructural Competence: How Organizations Support Migrants’ Hierarchy of Needs
  • Differential Benefits: The Impact of Computer Clubs in Palestine on Volunteers
Papers: LGBTQ+ Experiences and Technology
  • A Scoping Review of Queer Health & Well-Being Technology Research
  • Designing Sexual Communication Tools for and with Transgender and Queer Youth
  • Journeys of Parents with LGBTQ+ Children: How Trauma and Healing Reshape Identity and (Mis)Informating Practices
  • “I Just Don’t Want My Work Being Fed Into The AI Blender”: Queer Artists on Refusing and Resisting Generative AI
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Parallel Sessions
Panel: Just Sprinkle Some AI on It! A Live Play and Panel on AI’s Uncritical Adoption in Healthcare, the Workplace, and Everywhere Else
Papers: Collaborating for Privacy and Security
  • Growing Together for Digital Safety: Examining the Effects of Group Formation and Engagement in Building Privacy and Security Efficacy
  • PRISM: Evaluating a Rule-Based, Scenario-Driven Social Media Privacy Education Program for Young Autistic Adults
  • Designing SocialTrust.md to Enhance Developer Awareness of Risks in Utilizing Open-Source GitHub Repositories
  • Mutual Surveillance in Couples with Memory Concerns
  • 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
Papers: Rethinking Work Through Technology
  • Organizing in the Digital Age: Understanding Community, Challenges, and Consequences in Digitally-facilitated Labor Organizing
  • The Transparency Paradox: An Ethnographic Investigation of AI Ethics and Accountability in Nigerian Journalism
  • Selling Moments in the Fields: Re-thinking Work in CSCW Through the Lens of Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in China
  • “We Belong to the Land”: Centering Aesthetic Experience in CSCW Research on Urban Farming
  • “It’s More of a Lifestyle”: Design Considerations for Supporting Everyday Practices in Community-Based Farming
Papers: Designing Remote and Hybrid Experiences
  • FaceValue: Exploring Real-Time Self-View Overlays to Prompt Meaning-Oriented Self-Awareness in Remote Meetings
  • HybridPortal: Enabling Hybrid Group Interactions in Hybrid Events through a Mobile Portal
  • Modular Multiplayer: Segmenting Gameplay into Autonomous Modules to Enable Catered Multiplayer Experiences
  • Designing Embodied Telepresence for Remote Collaboration: A Comparative Study of Robots and Avatars
  • Reading the Room: Steerable Live Comment Clustering to Improve Speaker-Audience Understanding
Papers: Moderating and Engaging in Online Communities
  • Should the Powerful Be Moderated? Examining Social Media Users’ Perspectives on Moderating Politicians’ Inappropriate Speech
  • Creating Group Rules with AI: Human-AI Collaboration in WhatsApp Moderation
  • I’m In If You’re In: Action Escrows as a Design Pattern to Achieve Social Change in Online Communities
  • Leveraging AI for Direct Bystander Intervention Against Cyberbullying
  • Slowness and Meta Writing on Tumblr as Alternative Forms of Engagement in Online Communities
12:30 – 2:30
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Parallel Sessions
Panel: How Can We Use “Infrastructure” Theory to Study AI/ML Applications?
SIG: Studying Up and Sideways: Situating Workers within Broader Labor Ecosystems
Papers: Culture, Faith, and Expression
  • Understanding Aspirational Goals of a Religious Community to Inform Values-In Design: Drawing on Religious Teachings
  • Technology Use in the Black Church: Perspectives of Black Church Leaders
  • What Do You Mean by “Hood” Prom?: Joyful Narratives Shown Through the Eyes of Black Teens on TikTok
  • Empire Amplifier: Uncovering and Contesting the Prioritization of Colonial Content on Platforms Through Community-Informed Algorithmic Auditing
  • Is Your Chatbot a Tourist or a Townie? Quantifying Geographic and Localness Disparities in LLM Representations of Place
Papers: Crowdsourcing & Peer Production
  • LLMs in Wikipedia: Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in Knowledge Communities
  • The Persistence of Retracted Papers on Wikipedia
  • Sanctioned by Others: Remediating Knowledge Exclusion on Wikipedia Through Design
  • From OSS to Open Source AI: An Exploratory Study of Collaborative Development Paradigm Divergence
Papers: Responsible and Ethical AI
  • AI LEGO: Scaffolding Cross-Functional Collaboration in Industrial Responsible AI Practices during Early Design Stages
  • Movement Data Science: A Relational Approach to Situating Data Scientists’ Roles in Social Justice Efforts
  • Method, Mind, and Morality: How People Make Sense of Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Wellbeing by Design: Safeguarding End-Users’ Time and Attention in UI/UX Practices
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Townhall
6:30 – 7:30 pm
Evening Social Event (TBD)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2026
9:00 – 10:30
Parallel Sessions
SIG: Futures of Work in Civic and Public Interest Technology
Papers: Supporting Youth and Families
  • “I Usually Profit Because I Know When to Stop”: Understanding Teenagers’ Risk Perception and Mitigation Strategies of Gambling from Reddit
  • Analyzing Social Media Claims regarding Youth Online Safety Features to Identify Problem Areas and Communication Gaps
  • Design Guidelines for Parent-Child Joint Media Engagement
  • Perceptions of AI-Driven EdTech: Nationwide Survey and Focus Group Insights from Key End Users
  • PAPEL: A Collaborative System for Parental Guidance during Preschool Play-Based English Learning
Papers: Decentralized Social Media
  • Federating Governance: How Community Rules Scale with Mastodon Servers
  • Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols
  • Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
  • The Activist’s Guide to the Decentralized Social Universe: A Framework for Exploring How Decentralized Social Networks Can Support Collective Action
  • AI Didn’t Start the Fire: Examining the Stack Exchange Moderator and Contributor Strike
Papers: AI Beyond Individual Interactions
  • Bringing Everyone to the Table: An Experimental Study of LLM-Facilitated Group Decision Making
  • Investigating LLM-Powered Dissenting Minority Support in Power-Imbalanced Group Decision-Making: Counterargument and Mediation as Intervention Strategies
  • Sword and Shield: Uses and Strategies of LLMs in Navigating Disinformation
  • Keeping Societies in the Loop: Citizen Dialogues on Facial Processing Technologies in Bolivia, India, Nigeria, Japan, and Germany
  • Understanding and Supporting Online Discussion with Opinionated Chatbots
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Parallel Sessions
Session: Lasting Impact Award
SIG: Rethinking Social Computing Research in the Age of AI: Agency, Collaboration, and Governance
Papers: Doing CSCW Research
  • To Tango or to Disentangle? Making Ethnography Public in the Digital Age
  • Post-Post-API Age: Studying Digital Platforms in Scant Data Access Times
  • Artful Reconfiguration: Decoupling Novelty and Design in a Computer-Saturated World
  • Moving Targets in Collaborative Science: Boundary Spanning in Transdisciplinary Iterative Problem Formation
  • The Work of Infrastructure: A Systematic Literature Review of CSCW Scholarship on Infrastructure, 2010–2025
Papers: Connecting Families
  • Kinspire: Exploring Game-Mediated Prompts to Foster Communication in Distant Families
  • How Gender Differences and Role Expectations Shape Work-Family Conflict in Remote-Working Parents: A Mixed-Methods Study in Japan
  • Human or AI Fortune-Telling: Exploring Users’ Expectations and Trust Formation in Relationship Advice-Seeking with Human vs. AI I-Ching Divination
  • Interdependent Navigation and Pragmatic Disengagement: How Older Korean Immigrants Selectively Engage with Digital Technologies
Papers: AI in Hiring and Evaluation
  • Expecting Too Much, Getting Too Little: Exploring the Challenges and Design Opportunities of Asynchronous AI Interviewers
  • Value Sensitive Design for Fair Online Recruitment: A Conceptual Framework Informed by Job Seekers’ Fairness Concerns
  • U.S. Southerners’ Attitudes Towards Algorithmic Analysis of Voice Data for High-Stakes Employment and Education Evaluations
  • Enhancing Interview Preparation for Autistic Job Seekers through Human-AI Collaboration
  • Shaping Collaborations with Algorithms: How Agency and Diversity Criteria Influence Team Formation and Outcomes
12:30 – 2:30
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Parallel Sessions
Panel: Implications for Action: Taking CSCW Research Beyond the Academy
Papers: Crisis and Disaster Response
  • Is It There Yet? Designing a User Interface for Messenger Apps That Use Disruption-Tolerant Networking in Crises
  • Infrastructuring Street-Level Imagery in Post-Disaster Contexts: Lessons from the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  • Making Sense of the Weather, Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams
  • Experts on Call: Infrastructuring Temporary Collaboration Spaces to Support Journalists
  • Iterative Netnography and Occurrence for Rapid Research: A Case Study of TikTok
Papers: Platform Labor and Workers
  • Uncovering Disparities in Rideshare Drivers’ Earning and Work Patterns: A Case Study of Chicago
  • Occupational Diversity and Stratification in Platform Work: A Longitudinal Study of Online Freelancers
  • FareShare: A Tool for Labor Organizers to Estimate Lost Wages and Contest Arbitrary AI and Algorithmic Deactivations
  • Platform Power and Worker Agency: A Socio-Technical Review of the Gig Economy
  • Twitch Third-Party Developers’ Support Seeking and Provision Practices on Discord
Papers: Designing for Wellbeing
  • “It Seems Every Word They Say Has a Purpose”: A Social-Technical Perspective to Understand the Dynamics between University Students and Mental Health Professionals
  • Stress through Story: Participatory Design for Gamified College Wellness
  • Postphenomenological Insights from an In-the-Wild Collective Sensing System Deployment for PTSD Therapy
  • Toward the Development of Online Spiritual Care Communities: A Large-Scale Survey of Spiritual Care Stakeholders to Establish Initial Design Directions, Acceptability, and Feasibility
  • Situated Practice Systems: A Computational System for Supporting the Coaching and Practice of Self-Regulation Skills for Innovation Work
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Closing Plenary
5:30 – 5:45 pm
Conference Closing and Hand-Over