[Air-L] CFP: European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2021 (ECSCW'21)

[Chris Wolf]

The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) is
an international venue on practice-centred computing and the design of
cooperation technologies. It is a series of conferences on
computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe that was established
in 1989. The 19th edition of ECSCW will take place in Zurich, Switzerland,
from 7 to 11 June 2021.

This call invites submissions of Journal Papers, the most established
category of papers featured in ECSCW. The submissions undergo an
integrated, journal-like review and revision process. The accepted articles
are published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of
Collaborative Computing and Work Practices.


ECSCW 2021 Call for Journal Papers

The European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW)
invites submissions of original and novel research related to the wide
field of CSCW. 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 (
https://www.eusset.eu/). The conference format facilitates critical
discussion across disciplinary and national borders in the field. An
overview of earlier ECSCW conferences (and proceedings) is available at
https://www.eusset.eu/events/ecscw/.

The Conference features a range of submission formats including journal
papers, exploratory papers, notes, posters, and demos, as well as various
events such as masterclasses, workshops or a doctoral colloquium. The
various formats differ in terms of length and the types of contributions
they represent. Please see https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/submission/ for the
full list of submission formats.

The data provided below applies to Journal Papers only.


Important Dates

since April 2020: System open for submissions

April 2020 – March 2021: Review, revise & resubmit processes, on a rolling
basis

1 April 2021: Acceptance cut-off date for inclusion in ECSCW 2021 Programme.

June 7-11, 2021: ECSCW 2021 Conference in Zurich

Submissions are handled  continuously in accordance with the Journal’s
processes. As soon as the submission is made, it enters the review and
revision process. Full papers must have a status of “Accept but incomplete”
by the 1st of April 2021 to be included in the ECSCW 2021 Programme. Papers
accepted after that date will be included in ECSCW 2022 Programme. To
submit a full paper, proceed to https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu  and
select the following Article Type: ECSCW Contribution.

Submission Description

We invite journal papers documenting original, rich, and in-depth
contributions to CSCW. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that improve
and extend the CSCW field. Relevant themes include, but are not limited to:

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   Empirical investigations of collaborative practices. Findings,
   guidelines, and/or studies related to communication, collaboration, and
   social technologies, practices, or use.
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   System design focusing on solutions to support cooperative work in
   increasingly complex, networked, and data-driven settings.
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   Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical
   foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new
   social and collaborative systems and experiences.
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   Methodologies and tools for investigating human practices, e.g., the
   nature of ethnography and the role of other innovative research approaches
   in building systems or studying their use, the application of critical
   design or design fictions to investigate future possibilities.
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   Critical analysis or theory with clear relevance to study, design, or
   use of collaborative settings and systems.
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   Domain-specific social and collaborative applications, including
   applications to digital civics, grassroots movements, healthcare,
   transportation, ICT4D, sustainability, education, workplace, accessibility,
   global collaboration, or other domains.
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   Analysis of the ethics and policy implications of socio-technical
   systems, the values that inform them, and the algorithms that shape them.
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   The changing nature of collaboration and teaming in relation to
   intelligent machine agents, e.g., human-AI relationships in collaborative
   practices.
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   Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions
   across disciplines, distances, languages, generations, and cultures, to
   help understand how to design in relation to  social, temporal, and/or
   spatial boundaries.
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   Discussions and extrapolations of work-practices and technologies, which
   contribute to the core topics of ECSCW.


Review and Revision Process

Submissions to the journal-track of the ECSCW conference will undergo a
fully integrated, continuous review process. The submission and review
process will allow authors to develop and refine stronger papers over a
longer time period. The review process is single-blind. Each submission is
assigned to one of the three ECSCW 2021 Journal Papers Chairs, who is in
charge of finding three reviewers, writing a meta-review and making a
decision. This decision is transmitted to the Lead Editor of the CSCW
Journal in charge of ECSCW contributions, who will transmit the decision to
the Editor in Chief of the Journal, and will manage conflicts of interest
among the different Journal Papers Chairs if necessary. Authors of the
submitted papers will be considered as reviewers for other submissions and
may be contacted by the Journal Papers Chairs on this behalf.

Authors are encouraged to submit as soon as they have their manuscripts
ready. The system is already open for submissions. Early submissions will
allow for multiple Revise & Resubmit cycles and will generally result in
earlier publication of the accepted manuscript in the Journal. Papers could
take approximately three months between submission and results of the first
review cycle, and approximately two months in the subsequent review cycles,
but the Journal Papers Chairs are working hard to speed the process up.
Papers usually go through at least two review rounds.

Upon an acceptance notice (status “Accept but incomplete”), the paper will
go through production (including proof corrections) and only then will it
be published on Springer Online First.

To be considered for publication and presentation at ECSCW 2021,
papers must reach
the status “Accept but incomplete” by the 1st of April 2021. This status
differs from a “Minor revisions” recommendation. The former refers to
papers which require only minimal formatting amendments, while the latter
refers to papers which still require some minor structural or conceptual
changes. Early submission makes it more likely to receive reviews in a
timely manner and speeds up the process of publication afterwards.

If the paper does not reach the “Accept but incomplete” status by the 1st
of April 2021, it will automatically be transferred to the batch of
submissions for the subsequent ECSCW conference, unless the submission is
withdrawn. With this approach, the authors will not have to restart the
submission process. All work completed to this point will be considered for
the next edition of the conference. This also means that authors may get
their papers accepted shortly after the ECSCW 2021 conference. If this
happens, the paper will be published as an Online First manuscript as soon
as it goes through the production process; the authors will be invited to
present their work at ECSCW 2022.

Submission Format

Paper submissions should be formatted following the CSCW Journal
Instructions for Authors available at:
https://www.springer.com/journal/10606/submission-guidelines. The length of
the paper must correspond to the size of the contribution. We suggest the
papers to be between 10000 and 15000 words (including tables and
appendices, excluding references).

Submission Process

Manuscripts must be submitted via https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu.
When submitting, please select “ECSCW Contribution” as the Article Type and
follow the submission steps until the final manuscript upload. For any
queries, please, do not hesitate to contact the ECSCW 2021 Journal Papers
Chairs at papers2021 at ecscw.eusset.eu .

Publication and Copyright information

The accepted articles are published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices – see
https://www.springer.com/journal/10606/ for details. Authors will be asked,
upon acceptance of the article, to transfer copyright of the article to the
Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of
information under copyright laws. As soon as a manuscript has been accepted
for publication, it will go to production, and when production has finished
(including proof corrections), it will be published on Springer Online
First, complete with DOI.

Additionally, authors will have the option to make their versions of
accepted Papers available with open access in the European Society for
Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library
(http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library <http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library>),
as an edited collection. The EUSSET digital library features all past ECSCW
proceedings.

Contact

Journal Papers Chairs for ECSCW 2021:

Adriana Vivacqua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Christine T Wolf, IBM Research - Almaden

Michael Prilla, Clausthal University of Technology - Technische Universität
Clausthal

Email Address: papers2021 at ecscw.eusset.eu



Conference Chairs for ECSCW 2021:

Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich - Universität Zürich

Mateusz Dolata, University of Zurich - Universität Zürich

Email Address: conference2021 at ecscw.eusset.eu

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*Christine T. Wolf, JD, PhD*
Researcher, Strategist, and Inventor
chris.wolf at gmail.com