Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cscw2025, aggregated by home.social.
We presented our first study on Digital Ideologies at #cscw2025:
In our work, we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies.
We let politicians across the Finnish political spectrum sketch out a social media platform and examine the values their proposals embody.
Our findings suggest that
📈 the political right prefers visibility based on popularity,
👨🏻🎤 while the left supports more flexible self-presentation.
This is truly amazing work bringing actual positive change to the world. #cscw2025 @cornelltech.bsky.social
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6ysaocl4wbig54tsqox4a2f5/post/3m3ur6syce222
For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, Gina Neff discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.
👋🏽 It's the final day of #CSCW2025! Gina Neff, Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London will be giving the closing keynote:
🎤 "Negotiating Innovation: What Construction's Digital Transformation Can Teach Us About AI and the Future of Work"
That’s a wrap on an unforgettable evening! 🎶✨
The Norwegian Orchestra filled the night with beautiful music and smiles at our CSCW Social Event. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us — what a wonderful way to celebrate our community.
#CSCW2025
#CSCW2025 attendees! 🌍 Visit our DEI space and Community Art Installation (first floor coffee area) to connect with others and see where our community spans across the globe!
Now at #CSCW2025! Authors explore innovative approaches to enhancing emotional connection and team formation across distances, examining how technology bridges physical separation while fostering meaningful collaboration in virtual spaces.
Now at #CSCW2025! Authors in the AI Applications for Safety and Support session explore how AI shapes mental health support—from reducing stigma through human-AI cooperation to understanding LLM use in mental health conversations and designing ethical, supportive AI systems.
Now at #CSCW2025! Paper authors in the Governing Platforms / Technology’s Role in Governance session cover a range of topics from Nepal’s governmental regulation of TikTok to supporting diasporic social movements through the case of Belarus to rural hunters civic participation in open data !
👋🏽 Do you work at a public university or collaborate with someone who does? Come learn what happens when your messages are requested and made public through public records (~FOIA) laws in my #CSCW2025 paper with Rachel Moran, Emma Spiro, and @katestarbird
🕝 2:30pm today (Tuesday)
📍Bekken, Core Concepts in Privacy Research
📄 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3711050
Now at #CSCW2025! The Open Source Community workshop is exploring the human side of open source collaboration, from navigating power dynamics among developers, designers, and users to managing interdisciplinary multi project teams.
Now at #CSCW2025!
Matt Ratto leads a SIG on Social Agentics, exploring how agentic AI systems can be designed in social and organizational contexts. From CSCW’s legacy of studying coordination and interdependence, the session asks how social theory can guide accountable, situated approaches to AI.
We welcomed new CSCW Steering Committee members, Sue Fussell (Chair) and Nat Poore. Karrie Karahalios ended her term as Chair. There was a lively discussion around governance, the need for senior member to volunteer to join the program committee, and the transition to rolling deadlines. #CSCW2025
🎤 Humans of CSCW2025
Meet Inha Cha, Ph.D. student from Georgia Tech.
“The highlight of my day was cheering for my friend during their presentation — seeing them share their work with such passion was really inspiring!” 💛
🎤 Humans of CSCW2025
Meet Patrick Lee , PhD student from University of Toronto.
What brought you to CSCW this year?
💬 "This is my second time at CSCW, my first one was as a nervous undergrad. Now that I'm starting a PhD, I came back to meet people and explore new ideas."
🪩 Poster Session time at #CSCW2025!
Come explore fresh ideas, early-stage projects, and inspiring conversations with researchers from around the world 🌍✨
🎤 Humans of CSCW2025
Meet Hiba Siraj, PhD student from George Mason University.
💬 “I hosted a workshop yesterday. It’s my first CSCW! I’m here to connect and exchange new perspectives with the CSCW community.”
Two spuddies will be at #CSCW2025:
Yuxi Wu will present our work on designing citizen harm reporting interfaces for privacy (and is on the job market!).
Isadora Krsek will present our work on user reactions to AI-identified self-disclosure risks online.
SIG: Evaluating Research from and About the Global Majority.
A key quote from the session: the “Global South” isn’t a single entity. “Practices differ — what works or makes sense in one context can’t just be mapped onto another.”
At #CSCW2025, the Gig Economy panel explored the everyday realities of workers, from data annotators to rideshare drivers, as they navigate and push back against algorithmic systems. A thoughtful and powerful reflection on the human side of the gig economy!
Exciting session at #CSCW2025: Designing for Mental Health Support — exploring how storytelling, cultural contexts, robots, and journaling tools can foster well-being and social connection.
📸 Honoring the core organizing team behind CSCW 2025 for their exceptional behind-the-scenes work that made the conference possible!
A truly inspiring keynote today from Prof. Kari Kuutti — a leading figure in HCI and CSCW, and Professor Emeritus at the INTERACT research unit, University of Oulu 🇫🇮. He shared a compelling reflection on the history of CSCW, highlighting its European contributions.
👋🏽 Welcome to day 3 of #CSCW2025 and the first day of the full conference program! To get into the venue, use the door marked on the map below — walk past reception (resepsjon) and around the corner to the Peer Gynt sign / red carpet to pick up your badge. If you're a student, bring your student ID.
📆 The full conference program (and a map of the venue) is available here: https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025
Have you noticed the rise of decentralized alternatives to X? Our #CSCW2025 paper explores how people on Mastodon perceive, manage, and wish to manage their feeds. Read more at https://tinyurl.com/feed-curation-cscw2025.
Nods of Agreement? 🤝 A study explored animation modality in avatar-mediated communication, examining meeting outcomes and clarifying avatar satisfaction in a #CSCW2025 paper:
Can intermittence and care be designed into sociotechnical systems? This #CSCW2025 blog post explores Solar Protocol, a solar-powered server network, to show how infrastructural, environmental & human intermittence can nurture sustainable, care-driven design. https://tinyurl.com/solarpowercare-cscw2025
Despite AI promising to make recruitment less biased, a recent #CSCW2025 study suggests a risk of inequity based not only on the automated evaluation, but who is able to circumvent it based on socioeconomic status and referrals. Read more:
🎉 Congratulations to Han Qiao and Siyi Wu on the Best Paper Award at @sigchi #CSCW2025 for our paper "Near Data" and "Far Data" for Urban Sustainability: How Do Community Advocates Envision Data Intermediaries?" @cscw
Han will present this paper at the Advocacy session next Monday. https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/program/content/211549
The paper preprint is also here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07661 #OA
Decentralized social media lets people build custom communities, but what happens when communities interact? New #CSCW2025 work by Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara, and Yan Shvartzshnaider explores how trust — and frictions — shape expectations on the #Fediverse
https://tinyurl.com/socialmediatrust-cscw2025
Why do we juggle 5+ messaging apps just to talk with the same person?
A new paper at #CSCW2025 examines how people switch between multiple channels through a two-week diary and follow-up interview study — revealing five key drivers: topic, expectation, features, mood, and inertia.
https://tinyurl.com/switch-channels-cscw2025
What happens when you chat with not one AI, but a society of them? 🤔
In a study with 94 participants, we found: groups swayed people more than a single agent — and even as AI, they created the social pressure of a crowd.
#CSCW2025
https://tinyurl.com/societyofai-cscw2025
On CSCW Medium: AI-Based Speaking Assistant (AISA) explores how real-time AI can assist non-native speakers in multilingual teamwork. This study highlights both opportunities for clearer speech and challenges around workload & anxiety. #CSCW2025
https://tinyurl.com/aispeakingassistant-cscw2025
What happens when you can duel like a wizard on real city streets? In this #CSCW2025 paper, researchers explore Immersive Mixed Reality Street Play: co‑located, movement‑based play in public spaces using see‑through head‑mounted displays.
https://tinyurl.com/mofa-cscw2025
🎁 How does the meaning of a digital gift change across cultures?
A new #CSCW2025 paper explores why. In South Korea, KakaoTalk gifts reinforce social reciprocity, while in Japan, LINE gifts are used cautiously to preserve formality. In China, WeChat's Hóngbāo is a playful game separate from traditional guānxi. The study proposes the "Channel-Oriented Gifting Cycle," explaining how platform choice is a key process that defines a gift's meaning.
Trust in tech is more than just code. New #CSCW2025 research uncovers how trust is built in Chinese NFT communities. The study finds that traditional Confucian values like "guanxi" (social connections) and "mianzi" (face) are crucial, shaping technological, institutional, and social trust.
This qualitative analysis of WeChat groups and interviews offers vital insights for designing trustworthy decentalized communities.
How should caregivers access patient data in cardiac telerehabilitation? 🫀👥 A new #CSCW2025 study of recreational athletes shows families balance care & independence—calling for flexible roles, smart alerts & tools for shared reflection.
How AI can help qualitative researchers find patterns in textual data, but not replace human judgment? Daye Kang introduces "ThemeViz," an LLM-enhanced Interactive Visual System to support theme development at #CSCW2025.
How can Afro-centred design improve diabetes care in Nigeria? Our study explores collaborative Type 2 Diabetes care and digital health opportunities for managing T2D.
#Diabetes #Africa #DigitalHealth #CSCW2025
Can flawed AI-generated images be better for design than accurate ones?
In a new #CSCW2025 paper, @jaguridi et al. explore using image-generative AI as a boundary object in participatory processes to design public spaces.
Their key finding: Imperfect, unexpected images, which they term conversational imperfects, prompted richer and more space-aware conversations with participants than accurate images (fake perfects") did.
#HCI #ParticipatoryDesign #GenerativeAI #AI
Could public libraries be the key to resolve digital inequality in rural America? This research shows how rural public libraries addressed intra-rural digital divides between closely located towns. Thank your local librarian and read the article, published at #CSCW2025
Privacy traps lie behind VR’s thrill. 🎮🔍 A study by Dr. Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, Dr. Lennart Nacke, and Dr. Leah Zhang-Kennedy shows how immersion and embodied experiences can make deceptive tactics more compelling. 👻👀 #CSCW2025
Censorship fuels misinformation. Misinformation justifies censorship.
Together they form "information cocoons".
This CSCW 2025 paper shows how users resist, and what platforms can do next.
Read more: https://medium.com/acm-cscw/cooperative-dynamics-of-censorship-misinformation-and-influence-operations-insights-from-the-b24d8d430b3d #CSCW2025
Was the internet ever good for artists—or was the experience just colored nostalgia by a less terrible internet? New research by Ellen Simpson and Bryan Semaan for #CSCW2025 explores how enshittification has reshaped art and community for artists.
https://medium.com/acm-cscw/how-the-internet-became-enshittified-for-artists-a10d1756acbe
How Voter-Fraud Misinformation Spread on YouTube? Yanheng Li et al analyzed over 5,600 videos and show how misinformation of Taiwan Election circulates on YouTube, and how video styles carry political meaning in a new #CSCW2025 paper.
Do you listen to, rather than watch, music videos on YouTube while commuting, running, or showering? Here is a new interface for you, in which you can listen to music videos together with other online viewers worldwide. Check this #CSCW2025 paper!
When a painting “belongs to 810 people,” what does ownership mean? Fractional collectibles blur collecting & investing: access without access, possession without possession. A #CSCW2025 study explores this paradox. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/cscw2025painting
Special thanks goes out to our hybrid chairs, Eleonora Mencarini & Doug Zytko, for helping us come up with creative ways of helping authors share their work with the CSCSW community. #CSCW2025
🌎 This year, #CSCW2025 is holding an online pre-conference on October 9 (CET) to give authors who can't travel to Norway a chance to present their work. The program for this event is now live and features 70+ papers — check it out here:
https://cscw.acm.org/2025/index.php/online-program/
🚨 The next deadline before registration rates go up by $50-100 is Tuesday, September 29th. Register soon!
IT IS #CSCW ELECTION TIME!
At #CSCW2025, Sue Fussell will start as the new Steering Committee Chair, so it's time to nominate folks for Chair Elect!
If you're committed to the health of our community and are interested in running for the position of Steering Committee Chair Elect, *or* if you believe someone else would be an excellent candidate, please complete this form: forms.gle/W3pRf2eKDFcPM5AT7
Nominations will be open until Sept 25. The election will run from Sept 25 to Oct 12.