Call for Participation

Sociotechnical imaginaries help to frame potential benefits and risks associated with digital technology. This workshop aims to develop imaginaries for how responsible design can help address and mitigate gender-based harm online. We aim to bring together researchers, designers, technologists, and practitioners who are actively working on, or reflecting on, projects that intersect with gender, safety, and harm in digital spaces.

We invite interested researchers and practitioners to submit a short position statement (up to 2 pages excluding references, in CHI submission format) and bio (up to 200 words) that demonstrates their interest, experience, and knowledge in relevant topics.

Submissions may present previously completed research, work-in- progress, emerging ideas, conceptual challenges, or opportunities for reflecting on responsible design and real-world experience.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Conceptual explorations of responsibility and online harm
  • Representations of online safety, harm, and responsibility
  • Experience of handling ‘responsibility’ in technology
  • Online harassment and abuse prevention
  • Responsible design
  • Policy and governance implications in responsible design
  • Methods and theories for conducting responsible design
  • Responsible design with gendered or marginalized groups
  • Critical reflection on responsible technology/responsible AI
  • Novel perspectives in responsible design and its future
  • Organizational contexts of responsible design and development
  • Applications of infrastructural justice to responsible design

Acceptance will be based on workshop relevance and the potential to contribute to discussions, as reviewed by workshop organizers. All successful workshop position papers require at least one author to attend the workshop in person and be registered for the workshop.

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: 12 Feb 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 19 Feb 2026

Please register your interest in participating by completing the online form: Workshop Participation Registration Form. Once you’ve completed the form, please send your 2-page position statement via the following link: Submit 2-page position statement. Please use the templates linked below when preparing your position statement.

Position Statement Formatting: The template for submissions is one of:
- Word: 1-column Word Submission Template acm_submission_template.docx
- Latex: 1-column LaTeX (also on Overleaf). Please note that the default template is set for 2-column and needs to be manually changed to 1-column for initial review using the the following option): use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Min Zhang at min.zhang@open.ac.uk