ECSCW'2018

Full Programme Announcement

Gérald OSTER — Thu, 24 May 2018 07:58:37 +0000

The full programme of the conference is now available online.

About the Social Events in France

Gérald OSTER — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:03:50 +0000

Some of you may have read that there are some protest or strikes in France. From abroad, it sounds always much worse than it actually is. Whatever one may think of the reasons of these events, it can be worrisome for the traveler. Here are a few information that should help you to travel safely and join us at ECSCW.

Among all, the main issue is the Railway company strike (SNCF). The strike is slowing down and more and more trains are running. Discussions are going on and it will probably be back to normal in June. For more update-to-date information, please consult the dedicated web site at https://en.oui.sncf/train/greve

In any case, the strike is planned on two days out of five. For us, it means on Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 and on Thursday, June 7 and on Friday, June 8. If you plan to travel on these days, book your train as early as possible and install the SNCF application on your phone (if possible). You will be notified in case of a problem with your reservation and they will confirm your travel if it is ok.

In any case, you will have a full information about the state of the traffic 48 hours prior to your travel if it is on a strike day.

Regarding other events, especially the student protests, the mobilization is quite low. Nothing is happening on the campus where the conference takes place. We will gladly explain you the situation and the reasons for these protests during your stay.

If you have any question or concern, do not hesitate to contact us.

List of Accepted Long Papers

Gérald OSTER — Wed, 09 May 2018 20:58:56 +0000

The Following Long Papers have been accepted

Speaking Their Mind: Populist Style and Antagonistic Messaging in the Tweets of Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders, A’Ndre Gonawela, Joyojeet Pal, Udit Thawani, Elmer van der Vlugt, Wim Out, and Priyank Chandra
Online Support Groups for Depression in China: Culturally Shaped Interactions and Motivations, Renwen Zhang, Jordan Eschler, Madhu Reddy
The Beauty of Ugliness: Preserving while Communicating Online with Shared Graphic Photos, Majdah Alshehri and Norman Makoto Su
From Work to Life and Back Again: Examining the Digitally-Mediated Work/Life Practices of a Group of Knowledge Workers, Luigina Ciolfi and Eleanor Lockley
In Search for the Perfect Pathway: Supporting Knowledge Work of Welfare Workers, Nina Boulus-Rødje
Of Embodied Action and Sensors: Knowledge and Expertise Sharing in Industrial Set-up, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Sven Hoffmann, Darwin Abele, Marcus Schweitzer, Peter Tolmie, David Randall and Volker Wulf
Variations in Oncology Consultations: How Dictation allows Variations to be Documented in Standardized Ways, Peter Mørck, Tue Odd Langhoff, Mads Christophersen, Anne Kirstine Møller, and Pernille Bjørn
Designing for Sustainability: Key Issues of ICT Projects for Ageing at Home, Johanna Meurer, Claudia Müller, Carla Simone, Ina Wagner and Volker Wulf
Room for Silence: Ebola Research, Pluralism and the Pragmatic Study of Sociomaterial Practices, Isaac Holeman
Co-Creating the Workplace: Participatory efforts to enable individual work at the Hoffice, Chiara Rossitto, Airi Lampinen
“What do you want for dinner?” – Need Anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home, Lewis Hyland, Andy Crabtree, Joel Fischer, James Colley, and Carolina Fuentes
The Effect of Collaboration Styles and View Independence on Video-mediated Remote Collaboration, Seungwon Kim, Mark Billinghurst, Gun Lee
Physical versus Digital Sticky Notes in Collaborative Ideation, Mads Møller Jensen, Sarah-Kristin Thiel, Eve Hoggan, and Susanne Bødker
Don’t be afraid! Persuasive Practices in the Wild, Mateusz Dolata and Gerhard Schwabe
Towards Evolutionary Named Group Recommendations, Jacob W. Bartel and Prasun Dewan
Newcomers’ Barriers… Is That All? An Analysis of Mentors’ and Newcomers’ Barriers in OSS Projects, Sogol Balali, Igor Steinmacher, Umayal Annamalai, Anita Sarma, and Marco Gerosa
An Analysis of Merge Conflicts and Resolutions in Git-based Open Source Projects, Hoai-Le Nguyen and Claudia-Lavinia Ignat
The Types, Roles, and Practices of Documentation in Data Analytics Open Source Software Libraries: A Collaborative Ethnography of Documentation Work, R. Stuart Geiger, Nelle Varoquaux, Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse, and Chris Holdgraf
Accountability in Brazilian Governmental Software Project: How Chat Technology enables Social Translucence in Bug Report Activities, Nelson Tenório, Danieli Pinto, and Pernille Bjørn
Folksonomies to support coordination and coordination of folksonomies, Corey Jackson, Kevin Crowston, Carsten Østerlund, and Mahboobeh Harandi
Worksome but Rewarding – Stakeholder Perceptions on Value in Collaborative Design Work, Marianne Kinnula, Netta Iivari, Minna Isomursu and Sari Laari-Salmela

List of Accepted Exploratory Papers

Gérald OSTER — Mon, 07 May 2018 09:40:07 +0000

The Following Exploratory Papers have been accepted

Coordination, Communication, and Competition in eSports: A Comparative Analysis of Teams in Two Action Games, Viktoriya Lipovaya, Yuri Lima, Pedro Grillo, Carlos Eduardo Barbosa, Jano Souza and Francisco Duarte
Towards a Better Understanding of Availability and Interruptibility with Mobile Availability Probes, Mirko Fetter, Anna-Lena Müller, Petr Vasilyev, Laura Marie Barth and Tom Gross
Blockchain and CSCW – Shall we care?, Wolfgang Prinz
Reconsidering online reputation systems Anna Wilson and Stefano De Paoli
Exploring the Impact of Video on Inferred Difficulty Awareness, Jason Carter, Mauro Mauro Pichiliani and Prasun Dewan
Infrastructuring for remote night monitoring: frictions in the strive for transparency when digitalising care service, Christoffer Andersson, Michela Cozza, Lucia Crevani, and Jonathan Schunnesson
Exploring Forced Migrants (Re)settlement & the Role of Digital Services, Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, Auriol Degbelo and Christian Kray
The Digital Work Environment–a Challenge and an Opportunity for CSCW, Gerolf Nauwerck and Rebecka Cowen Forssell
The Novelty Effect in Large Display Deployments – Experiences and Lessons-Learned for Evaluating Prototypes, Michael Koch, Kai von Luck, Jan Schwarzer and Susanne Draheim
Supporting Collaboration in Small Volunteer Groups with Socio-Technical Heuristics, Alexander Nolte, Isa Jahnke, Irene-Angelica Chounta and Thomas Herrmann
Revive Old Discussions! Socio-technical Challenges for Small and Medium Enterprises within Industry 4.0, Thomas Ludwig, Christoph Kotthaus, Martin Stein, Volkmar Pipek and Volker Wulf

Keynote: “Who works your data? Responsible AI to address trust and privacy in micro-work regulation”

Gérald OSTER — Mon, 07 May 2018 09:07:14 +0000

Antonio A. Casilli, Telecommunication College of the Paris Institute of Technology (Télécom ParisTech), France

Antonio Casilli is an associate professor of Digital Humanities at the Telecommunication College of the Paris Institute of Technology (Télécom ParisTech) and a research fellow in sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3, a unit of the French CNRS), and a faculty fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
His main research foci are computer-mediated communication, labor, and politics. He initiated the French academic and public debate on digital labor and, in 2017, was among the co-founders of the European Network on Digital Labor (ENDL). Concomitantly, he launched the research program DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor), bringing together unions, platforms, state agencies to explore the links between automation, platform organizations and the future of work.

Casilli has advised the French Digital Council (CNNum) on matters touching on work and the impact of automation on employment (National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence, 2017; Report on the New Trajectories of Employment, 2016), and has served as an expert for the French Council of State (Report on Digital Technologies and Fundamental Rights, 2014).
Among his books: “Qu’est-ce que le digital labor?” [What is digital labor?], INA, 2015 (with D. Cardon); “Against the hypothesis of the ‘end of privacy’”, Springer, 2014 (with P. Tubaro & Y. Sarabi); “Les Liaisons numériques” [Digital relationships], Seuil, 2010. A longtime regular commentator on French national radio, his work has been featured in international media (Le Monde, Repubblica, Arte, BBC, RTS, CBC, CNN, Times of India, La Vanguardia).

Who works your data? Responsible AI to address trust and privacy in micro-work regulation.

Responsible AI aims to explore the social, ethical, and legal concerns arising from automated systems and the application of machine learning techniques in an increasing number of domains. Within this field, a growing body of research gets to grips with labor regulation. Since recent developments in economic theory have questioned the displacement effects of AI on employment (i.e. the “robots will steal our jobs” fallacy), the debate revolves around AI-induced work –most notably on the actual amount of visible and invisible human labor demanded to produce automated solutions, and how it can comply with legal and ethical principles of fairness and transparency.

A specific form of AI-driven human activity is the emerging phenomenon of micro-work. Specialized crowd-sourcing platforms (such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Crowdflower) enable the massive allocation of standardized micro-tasks to myriad non-specialized providers in return for remunerations which can be as low as one or two cents. The functioning of smart equipment, driverless cars and virtual assistants is predicated on huge amounts of data that need human work to be annotated, labelled, qualified, refined, or augmented. In addition to preparing data to calibrate and train algorithms, micro-work is needed to evaluate the outcomes of machine learning models. Sometimes, micro-work disguises residual tasks of larger data processing operations that could be automated, but that unskilled humans can still solve more cheaply and accurately than computers.

Micro-work is mainly performed by millions of individuals in low- and middle-income countries in South Asia and Africa, in line with the emergence of global supply chains that are typical of contemporary economies and rely on massive outsourcing and off-shoring of business processes. Specific concerns arise not only in terms of working conditions and rights, but also in relation to the transfer of data across borders where specific data regulation applies – paradoxically at a time when European GDPR enters into force. AI’s worldwide “micro-workforce” introduces distinctive, often overlooked societal risks, such as issues of confidentiality of corporate information and privacy of personal data handled by hidden overseas workers to train future automated solutions. Non-disclosure of number of workers, of actual type of tasks, of contractual and financial frameworks of these services introduces a gap in our knowledge of this peculiar type of “data work”. This gap needs to be addressed in view of possible consequences not only on automation, but also on privacy.

Keynote: “USNB – Enabling Universal Online Social Interactions” by Valérie Issarny (Inria@SiliconValley)

Gérald OSTER — Mon, 07 May 2018 09:03:26 +0000

Valérie Issarny, Inria@SiliconValley

Valérie Issarny holds a “Director of research” position at Inria, the French institute for research in Information and Communication Science and Technologies, where she led the ARLES research team until 2013, investigating distributed software systems leveraging wirelessly networked devices, with a special emphasis on service-oriented systems.

Valérie in particular studies middleware solutions easing the development of distributed collaborative services, including mobile services deployed over smartphones and interacting with sensors and actuators. Since summer 2013, Valérie is the scientific coordinator of the Inria@SiliconValley International Lab promoting and fostering collaboration between Inria and California universities. She is also coordinating the Inria CityLab program dedicated to smart cities and promoting citizen engagement; the program is developed in collaboration with CITRIS at University of California Berkeley and targets urban-scale experiment in Paris and California cities. Ongoing projects include Ambiciti on urban pollution monitoring through participatory sensing and crowd sourcing, and SocialBus on a middleware solution enabling interactions across social media to support democratic assembly and collective actions.

USNB – Enabling Universal Online Social Interactions

This talk presents joint work with Rafael Angarita and Nikolaos Georgantas

Online social network services (OSNS) have become an integral part of our daily lives. At the same time, the aggressive market competition has led to the emergence of multiple competing siloed OSNSs that cannot interoperate. As a consequence, people face the burden of creating and managing multiple OSNS accounts, and learning how to use them, to stay connected. In this talk, I will present our research toward relieving users from such a burden through the introduction of a global online social network that allows people to interact using their favorite (siloed) OSNS. Our research builds upon our background on middleware-based interoperability solutions, which need to be revisited for the specific context of « social interoperability ».

The first part of the talk will concentrate on our contributions so far, which span: (1) a formal model to reason about the OSNS interoperability problem; (2) an implementation of a “Universal OSNS” that builds upon the proposed model; and (3) a preliminary experimental evaluation involving 50 participants where results show that people are positive about the solution as they are able to reach out a larger community of users.

The talk will then conclude with ongoing and future research directions. They all relate to the broad and ambitious question of how software systems may enable participatory democracy, that is, the participation of citizens in democratic assembly, action, and governance.

Announcing “The David B. Martin Best Paper Award”, Sponsored by NAVER LABS Europe

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:05:58 +0000

The David B. Martin Best Paper Award has been established in memory of the late Dr. David Martin, a stalwart of the ECSCW community and Associate Editor of the CSCW journal. The Award will be bestowed yearly upon a full paper accepted to ECSCW that particularly contributes to the multidisciplinary understanding of society and/or work from a CSCW perspective. While all accepted papers delivering such a contribution will be eligible for the award, preference will be given to papers authored or co-authored by early and mid-career researchers (max 10 years since PhD).

The award, which amounts to €500, is generously sponsored by NAVER LABS Europe and will be formally presented to the winning paper at the ECSCW 2018 conference.

The David B. Martin Best Paper Award Committee: Pernille Bjorn, François Charoy, Prasun Dewan, Claudia-Lavinia Ignat (ECSCW 2018 general chairs and papers co-chairs), Antonietta Grasso (NAVER LABS Europe) and Kjeld Schmidt (Editor-In-Chief, CSCW Journal).

Delayed Notifications for Long Papers

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:49:55 +0000

As submission deadline for long papers was extended with two weeks in November, notifications due to authors are delayed with two weeks. The new deadline for notifications is Friday, February 2, 2018.

Extended Deadline for Long Paper Submissions

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:37:09 +0000

Due to multiple requests, the deadline for submitting Long Papers to ECSCW 2018 has been extended to Friday, November 17, 2017 (5:00pm PDT)

The full call for papers including submission information can be found here

Call for Papers

Claudia-Lavinia Ignat — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:43:08 +0000

The ECSCW 2018 conference will contain Journal Publications (Journal of CSCW) and exploratory papers (published in the ECSCW/EUSSET Digital Library). This is the call for Journal of CSCW and if your paper is too exploratory for the Journal of CSCW standards, we have coordinated the deadline making it possible to submit your work as exploratory.

The ECSCW conferences are single-track conferences that contribute to developing an interdisciplinary ECSCW community. The conference format facilitates critical discussion across disciplinary and national borders in the field. An overview of earlier ECSCW conferences (and proceedings) is available from ecscw.org

Submitted long papers documenting original, rich, and in-depth contributions to CSCW will follow a journal-level review process. Accepted submissions will be published in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices, a journal with a high impact factor of 1.784.

CSCW focuses on enhancing our understanding of the practices of cooperative work and on exploring and designing CSCW systems. The ECSCW conference is an important venue for defining and further developing the agenda for CSCW research. The conference has a longstanding interest in empirical, conceptual and theoretical contributions and has a tradition of inclusiveness. ECSCW addresses themes which include but are not limited to:

Conceptualising practice in work and other activities, and the relationship between understanding practice and the design of computer artifacts: how can we understand work (the “W”)?
Cooperation and its characteristics (e.g., describing the particulars of articulation work and coordination mechanisms in a given setting): how can we understand cooperative work (the “CW”)?
Methods for investigating human practices: the nature of ethnography and the role of other innovative methods in CSCW.
Digital and other material artefacts in cooperative settings: how can we support cooperative work in increasingly complex, networked settings (the “CS”)?

ECSCW 2018 will have an open call for submissions structured in two cycles of submission and revisions:

First cycle of submission deadlines:

Friday, September 1, 2017: Full Papers Submission deadline
Friday, November 3, 2017: Notifications due to authors for Full Papers. Full papers that are given a “major revisions” or “minor revisions” verdict are invited to resubmit an improved version
~~Friday, December 1, 2017~~ EXTENDED TO Friday, December 8, 2017: Resubmission deadline for Full Papers
Friday, January 19, 2018: Final Full Papers reviews due to authors. Full Papers that now qualify for acceptance are notified. Small additional edits may be requested.
Friday, February 2, 2018: Final Full Papers to be submitted for production.

Second cycle of submission deadlines:

~~Friday, November 3, 2017~~ EXTENDED TO Friday, November 17, 2017 (5:00pm PDT): Full Papers Submission deadline
Friday, January 19, 2018: Notifications due to authors for Full Papers. Full papers that are given a “major revisions” or “minor revisions” verdict are invited to resubmit an improved version
Friday, February 16, 2018: Resubmission deadline for Full Papers
Friday, March 23, 2018: Final Full Papers reviews due to authors. Full Papers that now qualify for acceptance are notified. Small additional edits may be requested.
Friday, April 13, 2018: Final Full Papers to be submitted for production.

Authors can submit their papers between these two deadlines. Authors are encouraged to submit sooner which will allow for more time for Revise & Resubmit phase and will generally result into a sooner publication of the accepted manuscript.

The papers with a length between 10,000 and 15,000 words + references will be submitted at the link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu by selecting SI: ECSCW 2018 as article type. Paper submissions should be formatted following the CSCW Journal Instructions to Authors. Please keep in mind that, as per Journal of CSCW policy, the papers review process will be single-blind.