Submission Types

Abstract Deadline: 23 April 2026

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026

We welcome a variety of contributions, including:

• Full papers(6.000–12.000 words)
• Poster and Demo submissions(4.000–6.000 words)
• Workshop Proposals  

Submissions should be made in the ECSCW Format, the latest version of which can be obtained here.

All full paper submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Submissions for posters, demos, and workshops will undergo a single review process. All accepted submissions will be published in the EUSSET Digital Library.

Extended versions of best papers will be published in a Special Issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices (JCSCW).

We are open to creative formatting, paper structures and approaches, including speculative work, case studies, critiques, and other creative modes of presentation. 

If a submission is accepted, it is expected that at least one authors will be present in person to present the paper.

Topics of Interest for ICIRR 2026

• Rural computing and place-based design

• Local infrastructures, maintenance and repair, Circular Economy

• Innovation beyond entrepreneurship and startup logics

• Agricultural, forestal and environmental innovation systems

• Community-led, indigenous or feminist approaches to innovation

• Health ecologies in rural contexts

• Cultural opening, tradition and the rural public sphere

• (Digital) Education in rural settings

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in rural areas

• Policies and governance models that enable or constrain rural innovation

• Methodologies for studying and designing in rural settings

Target Audience and Disciplines

This conference seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of fields, including but not limited to:

• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD)
• Rural and Regional Studies
• Design Research and Interaction Design
• Geography and Infrastructure Studies
• Innovation and Policy Studies

Since we aim to foster interdisciplinary alliances that explore rural regions not only as sites of technological intervention, but as domains of situated knowledge, socio-ecological practice, and theoretical innovation, we explicitly encourage interdisciplinary, critical and practice-based submissions!