Submit a position provocation

This workshop confronts contribution dissolution: the condition in which agent-mediated collaborative work blurs the social basis for attribution, originality, and accountability. We want concrete cases more than purely theoretical work — empirical encounters with contribution dissolution from research, design, software engineering, content creation, or any other professional setting where the boundary between human and agent contribution became difficult or impossible to establish.

Position provocations should take a clear stance on one or more of the workshop themes:

• Contribution Dissolution. Cases where the boundary between human and agent contribution became difficult or impossible to establish in collaborative work.
• The Documentation Trap. Cases where provenance records existed but could not answer the questions that mattered for attribution and accountability.
• Accountability Infrastructure. Design provocations, governance proposals, or institutional experiments that move beyond disclosure toward new forms of collaborative accountability.

• Length: 2–4 pages excluding references.
• Format: ACM CSCW two-column format (sigconf).
• Submission: via Google Form (link below, opening soon).
• Review: at least two PC members per submission. Light review focused on concreteness of the case, engagement with workshop themes, and potential to spark discussion.
• Attendance: at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. CSCW 2026 registration is required.

All accepted materials — position provocations, slides, and artifacts generated during the workshop — will be made available on this site under a CC BY license, and archived with DOIs on Zenodo.

The primary collective output is the Accountability Infrastructure Casebook: a design provocation grounded in the concrete cases participants bring, outlining what collaborative systems and institutional norms would need to preserve for witnessed contribution to remain possible.

After the workshop, we will invite interested participants to continue through a working group focused on the governance implications of contribution dissolution, and to co-author a synthesis paper for CSCW or CHI.