CSCW

Welcome to the 23nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). This year we have faced unprecedented challenges as a global community. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted every aspect of society. We thus organized the first ever fully virtual CSCW conference.

Despite the disruption, we chose to see this as an opportunity for our community. In all of our planning we held one constant refrain: if anyone can have a successful virtual conference, CSCW can! Our community has spent more than 30 years studying how to work together when we are physically distant. We know what it means to engage socially and professionally online. We are also taking it as an opportunity to increase access to the conference for many who may not have been able to travel to a physical conference. This is a chance to apply what we know and, in the process, to learn even more. A virtual CSCW is a novel situation, but it's also one that we have been preparing for since 1986!

This year we are also "virtually co-located" with the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). UIST and CSCW share many common interests, and we wanted to create new opportunities for interaction across our communities. This year the CSCW and UIST conferences are being held so that the last day of CSCW (Wednesday) will be the first day of UIST. On that day we are jointly sponsoring a plenary panel and keynote, and both conferences' general sessions will be crosslisted and available to attendees from either conference.

In addition to the papers, we have a compelling lineup for the conference this year, with 12 workshops, 13 demos, 4 panels, a doctoral consortium, and 39 posters. New this year is short videos accompanying many of these venues, available in the digital library.