CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

• Friday, April 10, 2026: Deadline for submissions due 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
• Monday, May 5, 2026: Notification of acceptance
• Thursday, May 21, 2026: Web description and camera-ready submissions due 23:59 AoE
• Monday, August 17, 2026: Recruitment process completed by 23:59 AoE
• Saturday, October 10, 2026 and Sunday, October 11, 2026: Workshop dates

We invite you to submit proposals for workshops to be held at CSCW 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Workshops are pre-conference events to meet new attendees, share ideas, and discuss research. Workshops at CSCW 2026 are one-day events. Please note that all workshops at CSCW 2026 will be in person. The conference organizing team and the conference facility are not able to provide support for hybridity.

Topics may be about anything relevant to the CSCW community. We encourage workshops for newer and more emergent areas as well as 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 space 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.

To ensure a high-quality and engaging experience for all participants, all workshop organizers are expected to be in attendance for the workshop. The reputation and expertise of organizers are key factors for potential attendees when deciding where to submit, and their active presence is vital for leading discussions, fostering networking, and contributing to the workshop’s success. Accordingly, only individuals who commit to attending the workshop should be listed as official organizers.

Contributors who assist with tasks like proposal development or reviewing submissions but do not plan to attend may be acknowledged within the proposal for their specific role, but they should not be listed as primary organizers or authors.

The CSCW 2026 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 accessibility2026@cscw.acm.org.

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 accessibility2026@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
• 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. 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 10 April, 2026 AoE.

To submit, please use the Precision Conference System (PCS) 2.0: https://new.precisionconference.com (Please ensure you are in the CSCW 2026 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 5 May, 2026. Due to the multifaceted criteria for creating a workshop program, reviews will not be sent to potential workshop organizers.

By 21 May, 2026 AoE, accepted workshops must provide to web2026@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 21 May, 2026 AoE.

Organizers should complete the recruitment process and submit a final headcount to the Workshop Co-Chairs by 17 August 2026 AoE.

Questions concerning workshop proposals should be directed to the CSCW 2026 Workshop Co-Chairs via workshops2026@cscw.acm.org.

• Jed Brubaker (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
• Dominic DiFranzo (Lehigh University, USA)

Contact: workshops2026@cscw.acm.org