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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
https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2021/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.
7-11 June 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:
- 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, and data-driven 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, 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.
- Critical
analysis or theory with clear relevance to study, design, or use
of collaborative settings and systems.
- 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.
- Analysis of the
ethics and policy implications of socio-technical systems, the
values that inform them, and the algorithms that shape them.
- The changing
nature of collaboration and teaming in relation to intelligent
machine agents, e.g., human-AI relationships in collaborative
practices.
- 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.
- 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@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), 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@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@ecscw.eusset.eu