ECSCW 2026 Call for Papers

The EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) is an international venue on practice-centered computing and the design of cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work that was established in 1989.

The 24th edition of ECSCW will take place in Munich, Germany - from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026.

https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/

ECSCW is a single-track conference that contributes to developing an interdisciplinary and global community, supported by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. The conference format facilitates critical discussion across disciplinary and national borders in the field. An overview of earlier ECSCW conferences (and proceedings) is available here: https://www.eusset.eu/events/ecscw/.

The themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

• Empirical investigations of collaborative practices: findings, guidelines, and/or studies related to communication, collaboration, and social technologies, practices, or use.
• System design focusing on solutions to support cooperative work in increasingly complex, networked settings.
• Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.
• Methodologies and tools for investigating human practices: the nature of ethnography and the role of other innovative research approaches in building systems or studying their use, the application of design fictions to investigate future possibilities.
• Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to study or design of collaborative settings and systems.
• Domain-specific social and collaborative applications, including applications to digital civics, grassroots movements, healthcare, transportation, ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, global collaboration, or other domains.
• Analysis of the ethics and policy implications of socio-technical systems, the values that inform them, and the algorithms that shape them.
• Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.
• Discussions and extrapolations of work-practices and technologies, which contribute to the core topics of ECSCW.
• Human-AI interaction: recent advancements in AI technology shape a new understanding of "collaboration" in this context. While ECSCW is not an AI-centric venue, it welcomes submissions on design, analysis, or critical discourse on cooperative AI systems or agents.

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit contributions to ECSCW 2026 for the following tracks:

• Journal Papers (rolling acceptance; submit before end of 2025 to have a chance to make it for ECSCW 2026)
• Conference Papers (DL: 06.03.2026)
• Exploratory Papers (DL: 06.03.2026)
• Demos and Posters (DL: 20.03.2026)
• Masterclasses (DL: 20.03.2026)
• Workshops (DL: 20.03.2026)
• Doctoral Colloquium (DL: 20.03.2026)

Key Dates

• 15.01.2026 EasyChair system open for submissions - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecscw2026
• 06.03.2026 Deadline for Conference Papers and Exploratory papers
• 20.03.2026 Deadline for Demos and Posters; Masterclasses; Workshops; Doctoral Colloquium
• 29.05.2026 Deadline for camera-ready version of accepted submissions

For more information please visit: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/submissions/