Panels

Please use this link to go to the submission page. After logging in (you might need to make a user if you don’t have one) select Author submission and in the overview of tracks select “Panels”

The format of a panel provides a unique opportunity to bring together a diverse range of voices to collectively offer a range of viewpoints and positions. In this way, panels act as a vital medium for the ECSCW community to discuss emerging topics and research agendas, and debate issues that may not yet become fully recognized, acknowledged, or discussed. 

Ideally, panel proposals will be organized around 3-4 participants who represent a diversity of ideas and approaches related to a given topic. Topics should be novel, lively, or controversial so that they can inspire and engage conference attendees, provoke elaborative discussion, and help move forward core concerns for ECSCW research. We encourage panel proposers to identify prospective panellists who can not only share their expertise on a particular topic but also represent diverse perspectives, disciplines, methods, and approaches. Each panel should be facilitated by a moderator who will guide the conversation among panellists and engage the audience. In their proposals, we encourage panel organizers to articulate how they will creatively facilitate audience engagement and other proposed interactions during their panel session. 

We invite proposals that widen the framing and understanding of computer-supported cooperative work arrangements by promoting cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity.  All panel submissions must include the following details:  

• A detailed treatment of the topic to be discussed, including a brief review of related literature;  
• A description of proposed panellists and their topical positions; 
• A well-structured session plan, including the intended organization of panellist presentations and audience interaction; 
• Brief biographies of proposed panellists describing salient expertise relative to the proposed topic; 
• A provisional plan for how the panel will be run should it need to be conducted virtually. 

Submission Format and Process

Panel submissions are not anonymous and should include the name, affiliation, and contact information of the panellists and the facilitator. Submissions should utilize the Latex (Overleaf template), RTF or MS Word template and be no longer than 2,000 words excluding references. Proposals should be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission system. See the link at the top of this page. 

Selection Process

Proposals will be single-blind reviewed by the Panels Co-Chairs and selected members of the ECSCW program committee. Selection will be based on the relevance and innovativeness of the proposed topic, the panellists’ expertise, and the plan for creative interaction among panellists and conference attendees outlined by the organizers. 

Publication & Copyright Information

Accepted Panel Proposals will be published in the ECSCW/EUSSET Digital Library: http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library.  

The EUSSET digital library (DL) is an open-access repository. The EUSSET DL does not ask for transfer of copyright from authors. The EUSSET DL does, however, require sufficient rights that allow “readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted” (full info here: https://www.eusset.eu/digital-library/). 

The authors will have several options when it comes to copyright upon paper acceptance: 

• grant EUSSET DL a non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute the article and certify that he/she has the right to grant this license; 
• certify that the work is available under one of the following Creative Commons licenses and that he/she has the right to assign this license: 
  1. Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0) 
  2. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
  3. Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 
  4. or dedicate the work to the public domain by associating the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) with the submission. 

In the most common case, authors have the right to grant these licenses because they hold copyright in their work.