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CALL FOR PAPERS, COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK 2013 (CSCW 2013)
San Antonio, TX, Feb 23-27
http://cscw.acm.org

CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how 
technology intersects with social practices. To support diverse and 
high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review process 
described below. CSCW does not impose an arbitrary length limit on 
submissions; please refer to the call below for details about aligning 
paper contribution and length.

IMPORTANT DATES
* May 25, 2012: Title and Abstract requested (to improve reviewer match)
* June 1, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: Submissions due
* July 27: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject)
* August 27, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: Revised papers due
* October 19: Final notifications
* November 26, 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time: "Camera-ready" due

SUBMISSIONS
Title, abstract and paper submissions must be made via the Precision 
Conference System. A link to the submission site will be made available 
by early May.

We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the 
design or deployment of systems. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not 
limited to, social computing, technologically-enabled or enhanced 
communication, collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It 
includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, 
in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. New 
results or new ways of thinking about, studying or supporting shared 
activities can be in these and related areas:

- Social Computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, and software 
infrastructures addressing social networking, user-generated content, 
online gaming, crowdsourcing and collective intelligence, virtual 
worlds, collaborative information seeking, etc.
- Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clear 
relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems.
- System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction 
design, technical foundations, or toolkits that enable the building of 
new social and collaborative systems.
- Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, ethnographic studies 
of technologies, practices or use of communication, collaboration and 
social communication technologies.
- Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches 
and tools used in building systems or studying their use.
- Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. For healthcare, 
transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or work), ICT4D, sustainability, 
collective intelligence or global collaboration, or other domains.
- Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and 
ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, and sensor-based 
environments.
- Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that 
explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, 
generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend 
social, temporal, and spatial boundaries.

Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must report 
new research results that represent a contribution to the field. They 
must provide sufficient details and support for their results and 
conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or experience, 
highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify the most 
significant contributions. Evaluation is on the basis of originality, 
significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution 
to conference program diversity.

PAPER LENGTH (new for CSCW 2013)
There is no arbitrary minimum or maximum length imposed on papers. 
Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a 
paper relative to its length. Papers should report research thoroughly 
but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. Many research papers will be 10 
pages long (the previous length limit for papers) but may be shorter if 
the contribution can be described and supported in fewer pages. While we 
will review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant 
the extra length: the more you write, the more work for reviewers! 
Shorter, more focused papers (called Notes in years prior to 2013) are 
encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. Papers whose 
length is incommensurate with their contribution will be rejected.

Papers will be presented at the CSCW conference and will be included in 
the conference proceedings archived in the ACM Digital Library. CSCW 
does not accept submissions that were published previously in formally 
reviewed publications or that are currently submitted elsewhere.

Submissions must be in the HCI Archive Format.

Send queries about Paper submissions to [log in to unmask]

Papers are subject to blind reviewing. Your submission should have 
authors' names and affiliations removed and avoid obvious identifying 
features. Citations to your own relevant work should not be anonymous, 
but please cite it without identifying yourself as the author. For 
example, say "Prior work by [author]" instead of "In my prior work."

Papers must include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Titles and 
Abstracts that are uploaded to PCS early will be used to find the best 
possible reviewer matches. Consider submitting a video that illustrates 
your work, either as a video figure judged as part of the submission (no 
more than two minutes long and 30MB in size) or as a longer stand-alone 
submission to the video track (Call for Videos). Videos are not required 
for submission of papers.

CSCW 2013 Papers submissions must be uploaded online at the PCS 
submission system by 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time on June 1, 2012 to be 
considered. Confidentiality of submitted material will be maintained. 
Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of Papers will be 
used in the Advance Program. Submissions should contain no information 
or material that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of 
publication, and should cite no publication that will be proprietary or 
confidential at that time.

Final versions of accepted Papers must be formatted according to the 
detailed instructions. Copyright release forms must be signed for 
inclusion in the proceedings and ACM Digital Library.

CSCW 2013 will continue the "Best of CSCW" awards program, in accordance 
with SIGCHI guidelines. Upon acceptance, some Papers will be nominated 
for additional review to identify "Honorable Mention" and "Best" awards. 
Approximately 5% of submissions may be nominated and 1% of total 
submissions awarded Best Paper.

REVIEW PROCESS (new as of CSCW 2012)
Papers will undergo two review cycles. After the first review a 
submission will receive either a "Revise&Resubmit" or "Reject" 
notification. Authors of papers that are not rejected have about 4 weeks 
to revise and resubmit them. The revision will be reviewed as the basis 
for the final decision. This is like a journal process, except that it 
is limited to one revision with a strict deadline.

The primary contact author will be sent the first round reviews. 
Revise&Resubmits will require significant attention to prepare the 
resubmission for the second review. Authors of Revise&Resubmits will be 
asked to provide a description of how reviewer comments were addressed. 
Submissions that are rejected in the first round cannot be revised for 
CSCW 2013, but authors can begin reworking them for submission 
elsewhere. Authors need to allocate time for revisions after July 27, 
when the first round reviews are returned. Final acceptance decisions 
will be based on the second (revised) submission.

The revision cycle enables authors to spend a month to fix the English, 
integrate missing papers in the literature, redo an analysis, adopt 
terminology familiar to this field, and perhaps even gather more data, 
problems that in the past could lead to rejection. It also provides the 
authors of papers that would have been accepted anyway the opportunity 
to make their submissions even stronger contributions to the CSCW 
research literature. The revision is submitted with a letter where the 
authors explain how the paper was revised, allowing more interaction 
between authors and reviewers.

This review process is not an effort to change the “quality bar” for 
CSCW, either to raise or lower it! Instead, the intent is to give more 
authors a chance to clear the bar. This process may lead to more diverse 
kinds of papers qualifying. Reviewers have more time to consider the 
significance as well as the technical quality of submissions. Authors 
from related disciplines have an opportunity to adjust to the literature 
and terminology found in CSCW.

This is not an invitation to submit extended abstracts or incomplete 
papers. As in the past, submit the paper that you would like to have 
published. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. Nearly half of 
submissions may be rejected on the first round, enabling the reviewers 
to focus on papers that have a good chance for acceptance. The strongest 
first round submissions will receive reviews that make it clear to the 
authors that few or no revisions are required for acceptance Acceptance 
is not guaranteed for papers making the second round; however, the CSCW 
2012 experience showed that the majority of papers that made it to the 
second round were accepted. As a specific data point, nearly all 
submissions that received an average review score of 4 (out of 5) or 
higher were accepted.

Additional author benefits: The rebuttal, which was focused on pointing 
out reviewing flaws, is replaced by a revision, which can be more 
appealing to read and actually improve your work. Authors of papers not 
making it through the first round benefit from a very quick turnaround.

The CSCW 2012 program was the largest in the history of the conference, 
and reactions from the community were largely very positive. To get a 
sense of the range of topics covered, you can view the CSCW 2012 program 
which comprised 164 papers, 65 interactive posters, 14 workshops, as 
well as demos, videos, and other events http://cscw2012.org/. CSCW 2013 
expects to build on this success.

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