[Sigtis-l] CfP: ACM CSCW 2013 - Two-phase review process, removal of arbitrary page limits (deadline June 1)

[N. Sadat Shami]

*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 papers2013 at cscw.acm.org.

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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