thedixitjain CSCW Camera-Ready and Production
Acceptance at CSCW starts two parallel tracks that most venues fuse into one: the paper becomes a journal article in PACMHCI on ACM's production schedule, and separately the authors are invited to present at the next CSCW conference. Keep the tracks distinct in your planning — the article's publication and the talk's logistics run on different clocks with different owners.
Track 1: the PACMHCI article
Execute the conditions first. Many acceptances arrive as Conditional Accept with Minor Changes: a named list verified before the acceptance is final. Treat the list as a contract — do the items, document where, and resist bundling in unrequested rewrites that could reopen questions.
Deanonymization is a build step, not a find-replace. Reverse every layer the submission masked:
- Restore authors, affiliations, and the acknowledgements section (people, funders, grant numbers) — this is the text most often still missing at the deadline because it never existed in any draft.
- Convert third-person self-citations back to first person where natural.
- Re-point anonymized repository links to the public, attributed release
(
cscw-artifact-evaluation's release build), and verify each resolves. - Revisit setting-level masking deliberately: some community pseudonyms were promised to participants, not merely required by review — those stay. Your consent documents, not the venue, govern what gets unmasked.
ACM production mechanics. Expect journal-standard steps: e-rights/copyright forms, final source preparation through ACM's TAPS pipeline, ORCID for authors, CCS concepts, and accessibility requirements (alt text, tagged PDFs). The precise sequence, deadlines, and any open-access fee treatment for PACMHCI CSCW articles were 待核实 at the 2026-07-08 check — take them from the acceptance email and the live ACM author instructions, not from this file or from CHI-trained habits.
Issue assignment. Historically CSCW papers appeared in paired annual issues (e.g., Vol. 8: CSCW1 April 2024, CSCW2 November 2024). How rolling acceptances map to issues is part of the soft launch — confirm your article's volume/issue/article number when production tells you, then cite yourself accordingly.
Track 2: the conference presentation
- The rolling CFP's wording is an invitation to present at the next CSCW, pending space — confirm which conference year your paper is assigned to before booking anything. The next edition at check time: CSCW 2026, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 10-14, 2026.
- Registration and attendance obligations (who must register, remote options) were 待核实; verify on the conference site early, because travel budgets and visas move slower than production deadlines.
- Prepare the talk for CSCW's mixed audience: lead with the cooperative practice and the concept, not the pipeline; participant-voice slides need the same paraphrase discipline as the paper.
Two-track checklist
| Item | Track | Owner | Verified against |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minor-change conditions executed and documented | Article | Lead author | Decision letter |
| Deanonymization build (text, links, acknowledgements) | Article | Lead author | Submission-era mask list |
| Consent-bound masks preserved | Article | Ethics owner | Consent forms |
| E-rights, TAPS, ORCID, accessibility | Article | Corresponding author | Live ACM instructions (待核实) |
| Public artifact release live and cited by DOI | Article | Artifact owner | cscw-artifact-evaluation |
| Conference-year assignment confirmed | Talk | Any author | Official email |
| Registration/attendance rules checked | Talk | Presenting author | cscw.acm.org (待核实) |
Final sweep
[Conditions] each acceptance condition → location in final text
[Identity] authors/acks restored; consent-bound pseudonyms intact
[Links] every URL and DOI in the final PDF resolves (run a link check)
[Metadata] title/abstract/author order identical across TAPS, the PDF,
and the artifact release
[Two clocks] production deadline and presentation logistics tracked separately
The venue facts here (conference dates, issue anchors) were verified 2026-07-08; production-mechanics items are flagged 待核实 above because ACM instructions arrive with the acceptance and override anything written down in advance.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → CSCW-Skills/skills/cscw-camera-ready/SKILL.md