Student Volunteers – ECSCW 2026

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.

Submissions – ECSCW 2026

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.

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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

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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

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