The Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. The 2025 conference will take place in Bergen, Norway, October 18 – 22, 2025.
The Department of Informatics at UCI has a large and quality presence at the conference this year, presenting novel research in the venue’s major tracks. Our faculty also volunteered their time to help organize the conference, with Elena Agapie chairing the Doctoral Consortium, and Matthew Bietz serving on the Program Committee.
Informatics students, postdocs, and faculty contributed to 10 full papers and journal articles which will be presented at the conference, including 2 recipients of Best Paper Awards, 1 Honorable Mention Award, and 2 Recognitions for their contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Informatics affiliates are bolded.
- The Accessibility Paradox: How Blind and Low Vision Employees Experience and Negotiate Accessibility in the Technology Industry by Aparajita S. Marathe and Anne Marie Piper (Best Paper Award and Recognition for DEI)
- “I’ve talked to ChatGPT about my issues last night.”: Examining Mental Health Conversations with Large Language Models through Reddit Analysis by Kyuha Jung, Gyuho Lee, Yanhui Huang, and Yunan Chen (Best Paper Award)
- Navigating the Gig Economy as a Caregiver: Understanding the Dual Nature of Nanny Work by Seungmin Jeong, Jaime Lee, and Yunan Chen (Honorable Mention Award)
- Beyond “Vulnerable Populations”: A Unified Understanding of Vulnerability From A Socio-Ecological Perspective by Xinru Tang, Gabriel Lima, Li Jiang, Lucy Simko, and Yixin Zou (Recognition for DEI)
- Behind the Same Mask: Understanding the Practice of Spontaneous Collective Anonymity on Chinese Social Platforms by Suqi Lou, Weijun Li, Chao Zhang, Shi Chen, Zicong Lu, and Yaxing Yao
- Living with Brain Data: Collaboration and Equity in Data-Intensive Brain Implants by Jun Zhu and Megh Marathe
- RequestAtlas: Supporting the Slow and Iterative Process of Requesting Public Records by Rachel B. Warren
- Understanding How Personal Activities Are Shared In Short-form Videos by Dennis Wang, Jun Zhu, and Daniel A. Epstein
- Understanding User Experience of Support-Seeking on Reddit During Stressful Times by Jiayu Yuki Yin, Novia Wong, and Madhu Reddy
- What Remotely Matters? Understanding Individual, Team, and Organizational Factors in Remote Work at Scale by Kapil Garg, Diego Gómez-Zará, Elizabeth Gerber, Darren Gergle, Noshir Contractor, and Michael Massimi
- “How Did We Miss It?”: Examining the Infrastructural Work of Practitioners Supporting Housing Insecure and Foster Youth Students by Rachael Zehrung, Lora Cawelti, Erica Van Steenis, Verenisse Ponce Soria, Guadalupe Aileen Mendoza, Richard Arum, Yunan Chen, and June Ahn
Informatics affiliates also helped co-organize three workshops at the conference.
- Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges by JaeWon Kim, Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Linday Popowski, Cassidy Pyle, Ahmer Arif, Gillian R. Hayes, Alexis Hiniker, Wendy Ju, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Hua Shen, Sowmya Somanath, Casey Fiesler, and Yasmine Kotturi
- Governments as design contexts: Institutional realities of technology and design in government settings by Ridley Jones LeDoux, Seolha Lee, Pelle Tracey, Rachel B. Warren, Trine Rask Nielsen, and Andrew Hamann
- Mapping Risk Work and Designing Technologies to Support it in CSCW Research by Myeong Lee, G. Mauricio Mejia, Rachel B. Warren, Yunan Chen, Hiba Siraj, Melissa Mazmanian, Ruchita A. Mandhre, and Kathleen H. Pine
The full CSCW 2025 program is available online.