CrowdCamp

Important Dates

• CrowdCamp Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026

Further details forthcoming.

Overview

CrowdCamp is a hackathon that takes place during CI/HCOMP for researchers and practitioners interested in collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, human computation, and AI. It's an interdisciplinary, collaborative event with no technical prerequisites: you don't need to code to take part! Students, researchers, practitioners, and industry folks from across disciplines (i.e. social science, programming, ethnography, design, and beyond) come together to explore wicked problems: complex, real-world challenges that call for human–AI collaboration.

Teams form around a set of challenges which connect to this year’s conference theme of Connections and participants spend the day building prototypes, study designs, algorithmic concepts, pilot studies, or whatever moves an idea forward. We encourage lightweight, fast-moving approaches like vibe coding, Figma mockups, and creative brainstorming to push boundaries and spark meaningful conversations. Bring your own wicked problem, or pick from starter ideas we'll provide. Possible directions might include:

• Crowdsourcing and Civics
• Learnersourcing in-the-wild
• Advancing Citizen Science
• Community-driven Journalism
• New Economic Models for Human Crowd Work
• Revisiting the “Future of Crowd Work”

Running for over a decade across HCI and AI venues, CrowdCamp has seeded influential work (including the Future of Crowd Work paper) along with numerous tools and follow-on projects.

CrowdCamp 2026 is part of ACM Collective Intelligence 2026 (September 27–30, Virginia Tech's Academic Building One, in the Washington, DC area), held jointly with HCOMP 2026. A single registration covers both.

For questions about CrowdCamp, please contact the chairs at: hcomp-ci-2026-crowdcamp@acm.org

CrowdCamp Co-Chairs