The push towards digital transformation across various sectors presents both opportunities and challenges, necessitating approaches that are inclusive, adaptable, and deeply attuned to human needs. This is echoed in the latest issue of the CSCW, where the authors explore the implementation of participatory design and infrastructuring across various sectors, alongsideREAD MORE

Esteemed colleagues, May you find peace and relaxation, and savor joyful moments with those dear to you. The preceding year was marked by our engagement in numerous in-person symposiums: ECSCW 2023, Communities and Technologies 2023, and infraHEALTH 2023. We extend our gratitude to all the hosts and scientific and organizingREAD MORE

Call for Volunteers – Renewal of the EUSSET Steering Committee – Positions open – Do not hesitate to apply!READ MORE

EUSSET – The European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies – expresses its full support and solidarity with the academic research carried out by Associate Professor Kate Starbird and her colleagues studying disinformation and misinformation at the Center for an Informed Public of the University of Washington, USA. This research isREAD MORE

We have experienced issues with our web servers and will have to do some serious troubleshooting. During this time the server will be down. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope to be back soon.READ MORE

Under the hot sun of Portugal and in the cool rooms of a beautiful former church, we gathered for a ECSCW 2022 workshop on CSCW and Algorithmic Systems. Instead of considering algorithms or data in a narrow technical sense, our workshop focused on algorithmic systems and their increasing role in societyREAD MORE

View of Coimbra from the ocean.

Author: Richard Paulch What can different disciplines say about learning and negotiation, using robots as an example? Here we discuss the experiences gathered during the workshop “Robots in heterogeneous contexts: Negotiation of co-creative lifelong learning spaces through participatory approaches”. The workshop was integrated into the 20th European Conference on Computer-SupportedREAD MORE

EUSSET thanks the organisers for the great 2022 ECSCW Conference in Coimbra. We are now looking forward to the 2023 ECSCW conference, that will take place in Trondheim. In the meantime the proceedings are avialable in the EUSSET Digital Library, which is Open Access.READ MORE

Gender and Uncertainties – glimpses from the Summer School 2021

The Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) held in Como, Italy gave us an opportunity to deepen our understanding of CSCW as a research field. The experienced scholars of CSCW focused on building the understanding of collaborative work practices and the design of artefacts supporting collaborationREAD MORE

The winners of the 2019 David B. Martin Award are Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar, Claus Bossen & Jacki O’Neill for their paper “Rethinking Financial Inclusion: from Access to Autonomy” (access via >> EUSSET DL). Abstract. Financial inclusion has been defined and understood primarily in terms of access, thereby constituting ‘inclusion’/‘exclusion’ as a binary. ThisREAD MORE