CSCW

This year the CSCW conference received 571 submitted papers from 1507 unique authors located in 45 different countries covering six continents. CSCW uses a two-phase review process designed to help authors improve promising papers by revising them in response to reviews. Papers are initially reviewed by three or more expert reviewers, including both members of our program committee and outside reviewers selected for each paper. Those that are judged as having high potential are asked to revise their papers and resubmit them for a second round of review. At least two program committee members review each revised submission (along with the external reviewers in all cases requesting major revisions) to make a final recommendation to the entire program committee.

This year, we had a program committee of 81 expert CSCW researchers from all over the world, who managed the process of recruiting reviewers, writing reviews and meta-reviews, and making decisions about papers. We are particularly excited that we this year managed to have the program committee meeting in Europe for the first time. We met in August in Copenhagen, Denmark organized in collaboration with Computer Science Department (DIKU) at University of Copenhagen and the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU).

Of the 571 papers submitted, 242 papers (43%) were invited to revise and undergo a second round of review. 228 revised papers were actually submitted, and we accepted 142 papers. This means that the acceptance rate for CSCW 2016 is 25% overall (and 62% of those which were re-submitted).