Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges (building on the 1st Positech Workshop at CSCW 2024)

More workshops at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing 2025

• Augmenting Collaborative Problem‑Solving: Exploring the Design and Use of GenAI for Groupwork — Generative AI tools are typically designed for individual users and overlook group dynamics. This hybrid...
• Beyond Information: Online Participatory Culture and Information Disorder — The workshop brings together a global group of scholars to discuss information disorder—including misinformation, disinformation,...
• Bridging Expertise and Participation in AI: Multistakeholder Approaches to Safer AI Systems for Youth Online Safety — This workshop gathers researchers, practitioners and advocates to integrate youth-centered expertise into the design, deployment...
• Co‑Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy — Digital intimacy—including online dating, intimate content sharing, online sex work and romantic chatbots—offers both joy...
• Context Matters: Ethical Challenges in Research with Online Communities — Online community research lacks ethical guidelines and traditional ethical reviews do not fully capture the...
• CSCW Contributions to Critical Futures of Work — This hybrid workshop invites researchers, practitioners, civic actors and economists to challenge dominant narratives about...
• Exploring Resistance and Other Oppositional Responses to AI — The workshop will unite researchers and practitioners who study or engage in resistance to AI...
• Governments as Design Contexts: Institutional Realities of Technology and Design in Government Settings — Governments use diverse technology systems that impact citizens and are entwined with power, ideology and...
• Mapping Risk Work and Designing Technologies to Support it in CSCW Research — Risk work involves assessing, managing and mitigating potential harms under uncertainty in domains like healthcare,...
• Reflexivity & Reflection (R&R) for Sociotechnical Safety: Creating a Space for Collective Learning — Researchers from sociotechnical safety and security fields are invited to discuss how CSCW methods and...
• Regulating Sustainability: The Interplay of Laws, Policies, Norms, and Design in Sustainable CSCW — The workshop explores how regulation intersects with sustainability before, during and after the design of...
• Responsibly Training Foundation Models: Actualizing Ethical Principles for Curating Large‑Scale Training Datasets — This hybrid workshop brings together interdisciplinary researchers to identify the ethical challenges of curating large-scale...
• Towards a Systemic Risk Literacy for Tech‑Facilitated Gender‑Based Violence — Regulators are requiring platforms to conduct systemic risk assessments for online content, yet systemic risk...
• Traces, Breadcrumbs, and Patina: Exploring and Designing with Traces of Activity — This workshop invites researchers to jointly explore the notion of “traces” (e.g., footprints or patina)...