Design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams. The 2026 29th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2026) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems. The scope of CSCWD 2026 includes the research and development of collaboration technologies and their applications to the design of processes, products, systems, and services in industries and societies. Collaboration technologies include theories, methods, mechanisms, protocols, software tools, platforms, and services that support communication, coordination and collaboration among people, software and hardware systems. Related fields of research include human-computer interaction, business process management, collaborative virtual environments, enterprise modeling, s ecurity and privacy, as well as social aspects and human factors related to collaboration and design.

Submission Guidelines

Papers reporting original research results and experience are solicited. Each paper, written in English, is limited to 6 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Electronic submissions in PDF format are strongly recommended. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. 

List of Topics

• Collaboration theory and methodology
• Design of collaboration methods, processes, mechanisms, and protocols
• Collaboration across disciplines (design science, service science and data science)
• Innovative collaborative approaches (crowdsourcing, social media)
• Collaborative computing (Cloud/Edge Computing, Web services, Blockchains)
• Cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, digital twins, industrial metaverse
• Industrial Internet, IoT, sensor networks
• Large language model, industrial foundation models, AI agents
• Security and privacy in collaborative systems
• Collaboration technology applications

Committees

General Conference Co-Chairs 

• Weiming Shen
• Jano de Souza
• Amy Trappey
• Luis Camarinha-Matos
• Peter Kropf
• Hugo Paredes

Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Jean-Paul Barthès
• Junzhou Luo
• Yanjun Shi

Publication

All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings and will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), DBLP and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals. 

Venue

The conference will be held at Fuyao University of Science and Technology, Fuzhou, China.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

Dr. Jinghui Zhang

Southeast University, Chinajhzhang@seu.edu.cn

Dr. Kunkun Peng

Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Chinapengkunkun@wust.edu.cn