CSCW 2022 Chairs' Welcome

• Main Authors: HSIEH, Gary, TANG, Anthony
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7959; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8962/viewcontent/3500868.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We are excited to bring you the 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing – CSCW 2022 – virtually. We were initially poised to hold CSCW 2022 in Taiwan to help strengthen the CSCW community’s relationship with Asia, but the uncertainty around COVID-19 pandemic restrictions made this an impractical idea. Yet, as designers, we view challenges as learning opportunities and know learning opportunities lead to new ideas and approaches. From the online and virtual conferences experiences of the past few years, we considered questions like: what makes conferences interesting, what makes conferences worth attending, how can we make this experience available to more people, and how can we achieve these goals with the abundance of online (CSCW!) technologies now available to us? This conference’s design is based on learnings from the past two CSCW conferences and the broader SIGCHI community. We are excited to see how our collective experiences with CSCW 2022 will continue to give rise to new possibilities for how future conferences are delivered.