The 1st International Workshop on LiveWriting: (Experiments in Research Collaboration)

Stop falling asleep listening to other people’s talks. Come to a meeting, leave with new ideas. Show up with a vague notion. Listen to everyone else’s notions. Form affinity groups on the spot. Work together to refine your ideas into an action plan that is submitted to a journal (Automated Software Engineering)

A new kind of workshop:

• We meet together to work together. At this meeting, everyone collaborates to do fresh research.
• We don’t sit and watch talks. Instead, we group together to write papers. Arrive at 9 am with a short abstract, leave at 5 pm as a co-author on a finished paper. No homework, before or after.
• Teams, not solos. Abstracts are pre-clustered into three writing teams, matched on who you’ll write well with.
• Fast-track to journal. Papers clearing the editor’s bar are invited to a special issue with expedited review. Real venue, real provenance.
• Proof-of-Presence authorship. To maintain academic integrity and satisfy the strict authorship requirements of the Automated Software Engineering journal, the workshop employs a tracked Proof-of-Presence framework. Utilizing shared Overleaf repositories and version-controlled Git history, each participant’s distinct text contributions, prompt designs, and structural edits will be transparently logged. Journal representatives will oversee this digital ledger during the revision squads, ensuring that co-authorship is directly tied to active, documented collaboration on the day of the event.

Why this approach?

We need a new way to do research. Somewhere along the line, writing the paper became the job — the thing we sink months into, alone in a back room. The research paper should be the least of our efforts, not the most.

To fix that, we will leverage Large Language Models to accelerate syntactic mechanics—such as initial prose expansion, structural formatting, and preliminary literature mapping. This optimizes the workflow, allowing human researchers to dedicate their cognitive bandwidth to high-level conceptual modeling, critical evaluation of AI outputs, rigorous argument validation, and cross-disciplinary synthesis

So let’s see if that works. Let’s create writing workshops where the sum is greater than the parts, where researchers meet to craft their papers, and where everyone collaborates to do fresh research. Here’s the plan:

The day runs:

• 09:00 — teams form around clustered abstracts
• 09:30 — morning writing workshops (results, questions, scope)
• 12:00 — round-robin panel across teams
• 13:00 — drafting sprint (LLMs welcome as tools)
• 14:00 — complete drafts
• 14:00 – 17:00 — revision polish in Overleaf
• 17:00 — papers done

Call for One-Page Abstracts

Submit pdf to https://livewrite26.hotcrp.com/.

Submission Guidelines

• Format: 1 page max for text, 1 page for references, ACM sigconf two-column.
• Content: Your name and email at the top, an eye-catching title, and headings to describe the BASE:
  • B - Bet (Motivation): The core “why” and a sharp, open question.
  • A - Approach (Methods): The specific “how”—immediate tools, code, or accessible materials.
  • S - Sources (Data): The “what”—available data, case studies, or delta data to be collected.
  • E - Experience (People): The “who”—prior results, relevant publications, and Google Scholar links to verify expertise. Include yourself in this list.

Accepted abstracts will be shared with the authors of other accepted abstracts to form birds-of-a-feather affinity groups. Abstracts may be submitted by individuals or groups. That said, participants should not assume that the author groups in the abstracts will be the same as the author groups working on the day.

Abstracts should propose a 4-month study capable of completion by 2-4 people (standard university-based researcher study). Such a study should be a few months long, with work done interleaved with other commitments such as teaching, service, grant writing, and other research projects.