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ICSC 2026 will be held in-person at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on September 2nd-4th, 2026.
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ICSC 2026

Pre-conference Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, 2nd September 2026 · Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Arrivals

The Nuffield College map identifies the Worcester Street entrance and Porter's Lodge, conference rooms, toilets (including accessible toilets), bicycle parking, exits and the fire assembly point. Please download the Nuffield Map 2026 (Word document) before travelling, or view the map as a full-size image. Please also read our Accessibility Statement before arriving.

From Oxford railway station

Exit the station and walk east along Park End Street towards the city centre. After about five minutes, turn left onto Worcester Street where Park End Street meets New Road; the College's main entrance and Porter's Lodge are through the large gates on your right.

From Gloucester Green bus station

Leave the bus station towards George Street and walk west to Worcester Street. Turn left and walk south for a few minutes; the College's main entrance and Porter's Lodge are through the large gates on your left.

Nuffield College map showing entrances, rooms, facilities and accessible toiletsOpen the full-size Nuffield College map

Information for presenters

Poster presenters, please ensure that you have completed the poster form. If you are giving a talk, please complete the talk form.

8:30–9am

Workshop registration in the foyer outside the lecture hall

9am–1pm

Transformer Architectures

4 hours, led by Germans Savcisens

1–2pm

Lunch break

2–3pm

Non-visual data science and accessibility of scientific research outputs

1 hour, led by Jan Meyerhoff-Liang

3–4pm

Sequence Analysis

1 hour, led by Yuqi Liang

4–4:15pm

Break

4:15–5:15pm

Scientometrics

1 hour, led by Charlie Rahal

5:15–6:15pm

Multiverse Analysis

1 hour, led by Daniel Valdenegro

The pre-conference taught workshop costs £100. All available bursaries have now been allocated.

2ND SEPTEMBER 2026

Editorial Board Meetings

2–3pm

Journal of Social Computing Editorial Board Meeting

Nuffield College Chester Room · Online option available

3–4pm

ACM Transactions in Social Computing Editorial Board Meeting

Nuffield College Chester Room · Online option available

Both meetings offer online participation. If you expected an invitation but have not received one, please contact the organisers for further details.

3RD–4TH SEPTEMBER 2026

Research Talks and Posters

The schedule for research talks and poster sessions on 3rd and 4th September is currently being finalised.

Poster Presentations

Paper TitlePresenter
Taking Out the Human Factor: Comparing Algorithmic Profiling Against Human BaselineMax Kunaschk
The relationship between social order and crime in Nottingham, EnglandFanqi Zeng
Rethinking Parental Involvement in Disadvantaged Families: The Importance of InvitationsXiaohang Feng
Social Event Prediction via Temporal Knowledge Graph LearningSanglu Lu, Wentao Shi and Wenzhong Li
The Gendered Linguistic Geometry of Everyday Spaces in American English Discourse, 1900–2009: Domain-Conditional Feminization and the Asymmetric Emergence of Private VocabularyWei Zhuang
Simulated Contact, Real Empathy: Reducing Prejudice through Role-Play with AI PersonasChris Wenzhong Cai
Conversational Interventions Against Misinformation: Effects on Belief Change and Sharing BehaviorBasak Bozkurt
Scholars like any other? An inquiry into productivity and citations in the field of contemporary China studiesXiaoguang Fan
Promotional Modifiers and Reviewer Attention: A Paired Noun-Level AnalysisHuilian Qiu
Skill Endowments and Status Formation in LLM Agent NetworksYuanyi Zhen
Ideological Divergence in UK Political News Across Election Periods and Political Crises (2015–2024): A Computational Topic Modelling StudyIola Agbalaya-Mason
Making Low-Visibility Policies Discoverable: A Document-Embedding Approach to Inclusive Cross-Boundary Policy ComparisonChenxi Lin
Accessible Jupyter Notebook Output (AJNBO): A VS Code Extension for Screen-Reader-Based ReviewYuqi Liang and Jan Meyerhoff-Liang
How AIGC Influences Audience Engagement in Chinese Museum Videos on Douyin?Bo Zhao
How Hostile Tone Shapes Science CommunicationMiriam Schirmer
Who Meets Whom: Income Stratification in Urban Co-PresenceChen Zhong
Beyond Localisation: Cultural Defaults and User Agency in Conversational AIYao Xiao
Using language models to measure the demand-based wage gapElodie Chervin