Electronic health records (EHRs) support healthcare professionals in their
treatment of patients. To fulfil this function, EHRs include increasing numbers of artificial
intelligence (AI) components to analyze images, recommend actions, and issue warnings.
Because of their numerous technical features, EHRs affect many groups of actors and
require their competent performance of a variety of activities. As a result, the
implementation of EHRs in hospitals and other healthcare institutions is a major
undertaking, which has received sustained attention in computer-supported cooperative
work (CSCW) and related research communities. This workshop aims to provide a forum
for participants to get updated on current CSCW studies of EHR implementations and
create connections with a select group of CSCW researchers who study such
implementations. Within the overall theme of implementing EHRs, the workshop
specifically focuses on the activities, actors, and AI involved in implementing and using
EHRs. The key activities at the workshop will be presentation of the participants’ position
papers and thematic group discussion.

Hybrid collaboration, where co-located participants are working together with
remote participants, is increasingly established as a de-facto standard practice in our
everyday professional lives. Since the first edition of this workshop in 2019, the pool of
research has considerably increased. However, studying such collaborative practices is
still met with skepticism by researchers due to the considerable effort that is connected to the according empirical endeavors. In this workshop, we aim at bringing together
researchers and practitioners who are interested in the analysis of collaborative practices
in general (i.e., co-located or remote), and/or a domain transfer to hybrid collaboration in
particular.

AI technologies are increasingly integrated into society, driving innovation
while introducing risks of malicious use, including disinformation, cyberattacks, and
extremism. These threats are sociotechnical, emerging at the intersection of technology,
governance, and collaborative work. Addressing them requires recognizing that malicious
AI use extends beyond standalone algorithms to the broader ecosystems that shape
deployment, regulation, and mitigation strategies. This workshop brings together
practitioners from industry, government, civil society, and academia to co-develop
multistakeholder strategies for AI governance and security. Using a value-sensitive
design (VSD) framework, it integrates ethical, organizational, and policy considerations
into AI security efforts. Through expert dialogue and collaborative activities, participants
will explore actionable pathways that bridge design, policy, and workplace adaptation to
counter AI-enabled threats, fostering a comprehensive and adaptive approach to AI
security in an era of rapid technological transformation.

Despite almost a quarter of the world’s population living in rural areas, rural-
focused CSCW makes up a tiny fraction of published CSCW research and design. When
CSCW work does focus on the rural there are issues with the way rurality is identified and
understood and limitations in the approaches to research and design in rural contexts.
Building on a recent increased interest in rural informatics, which has drawn on social
science scholarship to take stock of previous rural research and set an agenda for rural
computing, we aim to identify opportunities for CSCW research to engage with rural issues and foster a rural informatics community of practice. As the world relies ever more on rural areas and the importance of information technology to rural resilience is ever more apparent, the need to innovate and design from the rural must become more central to CSCW.

Thematic analysis is a flexible, accessible and versatile qualitative method, but how can we use it effectively in HCI so that we reach rich and insightful analysis, avoiding the pitfalls of surface level descriptions and ‘bucket themes’? In this one day workshop we will walk participants through the entire process of a thematic analysis, working with a real world dataset, working through familiarisation and code generation through to developing and defining themes. Along the way, we will examine the potential of AI tools and language models in how they may be able to help (or hinder) the process. Participants will come away having attempted each step of a thematic analysis, having a firm sense of what this process looks like in practice.

Accessing and utilising sensitive data remains a complex endeavour arising from regulatory constraints, ethical considerations, the need for public trust, and resultant technical challenges. Based on healthcare data in the United Kingdom (UK), this panel of interdisciplinary specialists will examine collaborative models that respond to these challenges, focussing in particular on participatory governance and socio-technical responses that deliver ethical and efficient data sharing. With responsible data governance, research can drive transformational patient outcomes and guide evidence-based policy in health and care services. We will discuss how healthcare organisations, policymakers, community stakeholders, and citizens can work together to co-produce secure data environments that provide interoperability and ethical frameworks for collaborative healthcare data analyses. The conversations will highlight case studies of collective decision-making, as well as frameworks that enable cross-sector cooperation in health data governance and research. Through an interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and interactive format, this panel will provide insights into best practices for collaborative data work for research that foster ethical and privacy-preserving data-sharing functions, and public trust. Through identifying pathways that promote data access while maintaining ethical integrity, the panel discussions will contribute to releasing the potential of healthcare data for societal benefit in the UK and globally.

Rural regions are of upmost importance to the political stability of liberal democracies. So far, CSCW has a long tradition to study studies of work environments, social networks, and political movements. The panel will explore opportunities to expand this research program towards the future-proofing of rural (and industrialized) regions. Against the background of their experiences, the panelists will discuss potentials and challenges for such a research agenda.