ECSCW 2026 is looking for student volunteers! Benefits include free conference attendance & free use of public transportation in Munich. Let’s put together a memorable conference!

📌 Application Deadline: April 30, 2026

👉 Details: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/attending/student-volunteers/

Student Volunteers – ECSCW 2026

#AI enhances individual cognition like summarizing and synthesizing, but #teamwork requires coordinating interdependence and shared awareness.

We must decide how to design for when agents stay peripheral or they should intervene.

#AgenticAI #CSCW #Collaboration

https://www.designative.info/2026/03/02/designing-awareness-in-agent-mediated-collaboration/

Designing Awareness in Agent-Mediated Collaboration » { design@tive } information design

How should AI agents support awareness in teamwork—without overwhelming it? A design standard for agent-mediated collaboration.

{ design@tive } information design

The submission deadline for full conference papers is approaching fast now. 😲 Submit yours via EasyChair by March 6 (AoE), or take a look at the other submission categories. The deadline for posters is two weeks later!

#ECSCW2026 #HCI #CSCW

Submissions – ECSCW 2026

I'm co-organizing #ECSCW2026, an academic conference on how people use technology to work together. (Because I don't have enough to do yet, ha.)

One of the things I'm handling is social media, so if you do #CSCW, #HCI or related research, feel free to follow and/or share! 🙂

https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/2026/01/19/690/

We desperately need a common LED indicator vocabulary for headphones/earphones to indicate to an observer whether the wearer is listening to anything and whether they’re using transparency mode or not. (This was probably a #cscw paper 25 years ago.)

Blockchain's hype boosted DAO communities, which, a decade later, now manage $16 billion. Did DAO platforms deliver on their initial promises?
Our new paper covers a 7-year mixed-methods postmortem of a first-gen DAO platform. What worked, what broke, what can we learn
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3320

A summary thread detailing our findings in Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/samerp2p.bsky.social/post/3m4xkya7kf22i

#DAOs #Blockchain #Governance #HCI #CSCW #PeerProduction #Web3

The rise and fall of DAOstack: lessons for decentralized autonomous organizations

Despite the hype and scandals around blockchain, there are valuable applications beyond finance, such as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). DAOs are self-governed online communities where users vote and manage budgets transparently. In under a decade, DAOs have evolved from theory to managing billions of dollars. Blockchain enthusiasts launched DAO platforms like our case study, “DAOstack”, promising large-scale collaboration and quickly securing millions in funding. Today, we can critically evaluate to what extent the platform followed up on its promises. In this work, we analyze DAOstack using a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data. In particular, we quantitatively examined its 92 organizations in terms of size, lifespan, activity, power concentration, and the effectiveness of its governance model. We also interviewed in-depth 6 DAOstack core users to delve deep into their experiences using the platform. Our analysis shows that DAOstack mainly hosted small, short-lived DAOs, with some exceptions. Its governance model was functional, but the economic incentives underpinning it were ineffective. The analysis of the interviews reveals interesting aspects such as the power imbalances due to token ownership and reputation, and that the voting system, though innovative, was affected by issues of cost and complexity. We conclude by discussing the challenges these platforms face and advocating for a multidisciplinary experimental approach for future DAO designers.

PeerJ Computer Science
I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW in #Bergen on Tuesday! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” at 2:30PM in Bekken ☺️ https://hci.social/@cscw/115374760996616507
ACM CSCW (@[email protected])

Decentralized social media lets people build custom communities, but what happens when communities interact? New #CSCW2025 work by Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara, and Yan Shvartzshnaider explores how trust — and frictions — shape expectations on the #Fediverse https://tinyurl.com/socialmediatrust-cscw2025

🌱 hci.social

Just want to say out loud how much I enjoy @cscw posting tirelessly about their latest conference contributions this week. 🤩 I've never even been to CSCW myself, but if you care about the latest research on how people use technology to communicate and collaborate, check out their account.

Here, I picked out a surprise bag of cool posts for you:

1. https://hci.social/@cscw/115328292912553076
2. https://hci.social/@cscw/115328763547751567
3. https://hci.social/@cscw/115339146350018782
4. https://hci.social/@cscw/115334660771553949
5. https://hci.social/@cscw/115321682898641616

#HCI #CSCW

ACM CSCW (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Was the internet ever good for artists—or was the experience just colored nostalgia by a less terrible internet? New research by Ellen Simpson and Bryan Semaan for #CSCW2025 explores how enshittification has reshaped art and community for artists. https://medium.com/acm-cscw/how-the-internet-became-enshittified-for-artists-a10d1756acbe

🌱 hci.social

🎇 We're in the final stretch before the start of CSCW 2025! The virtual pre-conference is this Friday, October 10th, and the main in-person conference is from October 18-22nd.

The full program for the pre- and main conference events are online, including paper abstracts, author info, awards winners and more.

Check it out here: https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025

Registered attendees will receive more information soon on how to access the virtual pre-conference, including Zoom links.

#CSCW2025 #CSCW

Conference Programs

🎇 We're excited to share more information about the phased introduction of rolling deadlines for CSCW papers, slated to begin in 2026 for papers published in 2027.

Read more here: https://medium.com/acm-cscw/cscw-rolling-submissions-925e17bb4022

Thanks to Amy Bruckman (@asb) and Eric Gilbert for leading this change.

#CSCW #CSCW2027

CSCW Rolling Submissions

CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions. You will be able to submit work to CSCW whenever it is ready (no deadlines)…

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