=== CALL FOR PAPERS ===
ECSCW 2020, The 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Siegen (Germany), June 13 – 17, 2020
https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/

For 30 years, the ECSCW conference has served as a major international venue 
for defining and further developing the agenda for CSCW research, which has 
been focusing on the understanding of cooperative work practices and 
investigation of the mediational role of computer technology in it. The 
conference has a longstanding interest in empirical, conceptual, theoretical 
and technical contributions, and has a tradition of innovation and 
inclusiveness.

ECSCW 2020 will take place in Siegen, Germany, from June 13-17, 2020 (see 
https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/). 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

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/.

Similar to previous ECSCW conferences, ECSCW 2020 will feature different types 
of publications – Journal Papers, Exploratory Papers, Poster and Demos, among 
others. Each publication type will have a separate call for submissions given 
the differences in the review process.

This call targets the Journal Papers documenting original, rich, and in-depth 
contributions to CSCW. Submitted papers will follow a standard journal review 
process and accepted submissions will be published in Computer Supported 
Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work 
Practices, the most prestigious Journal of CSCW research.

Upon acceptance of the paper to the Journal, authors are expected to present 
their work at the conference.

Important information about the review process:
For the first time, submissions to the journal-track of the ECSCW conference 
will undergo a fully-integrated review process which will be continuous. 
Reviews and resubmissions will therefore not be restricted to two rounds, as it 
was the case in the past. Rather, the new submission and review process will 
allow authors to develop and refine stronger papers over a longer time period 
(as soon as the authors submit early enough). The review process is 
single-blind, as has been since ECSCW implemented a journal-track.

Authors are encouraged to submit as soon as they have their manuscripts ready. 
Early submissions will allow for multiple Revise & Resubmit cycles (if 
necessary) and will generally result into earlier publication of the accepted 
manuscript in the Journal. 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.

Important dates:

May 15, 2019: The system opens for submissions
July, 2019 – February 2020: Revise & Resubmission/Early accepts
March 15, 2020: Acceptance cut-off date for ECSCW 2020
April 12, 2020: Deadline for the production-ready version of all accept papers
June 13-17, 2020: ECSCW Conference in Siegen

To be considered for publication and presentation at ECSCW 2020, papers must at 
least reach the status Accepted but incomplete by March 15, 2020. This status 
differs from a Minor revisions recommendation. The former refers to papers 
which require only minor formatting amendments, while the latter refers to 
papers which still require some minor structural or conceptual changes.

If the paper does not reach the Accepted but incomplete status by March 15, 
2020, 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 and all 
work completed to this point will be considered for the next chapter of the 
conference. This also means that authors may get their papers accepted shortly 
after the ECSCW 2020 conference. If this happens, the paper will be published 
as an Online First manuscript as soon as it goes through the production process 
and its presentation will be expected at ECSCW 2021.

The production-ready version of the papers that reach the Accepted but 
incomplete status by March 15, 2020 must be submitted by the April 12, 2020 to 
be included for presentation at the ECSCW 2020.

After submitting their articles for production, authors may be required to make 
additional revisions, according to the publication standards of the Journal.

Submission format:
Paper submissions should be formatted following the CSCW Journal Instructions 
for Authors available at:https://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606. The 
length of the paper must correspond to the size of the contribution.

Submission process:
Manuscripts must be submitted at the link: 
https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu. When submitting, please selectECSCW 
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 2020 Programme 
Editors at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.


--
Konstantin Aal
Research assistant and PhD student

Information Systems and New Media
SFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation"
University of Siegen

Kohlbettstr. 15, 57072 Siegen
Raum. US-E-102
Tel. +49 (0)271 / 740 3383
Mob. +49 (0)176 / 30 780 007

http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/index.html.en?lang=en


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