Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND PROPOSALS

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The 2012 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program will feature technical papers, a poster session, panels and invited talks, lightning talks and demos, and workshops and tutorials. This year SOUPS will be held in Washington, DC.

See important dates below.

Papers must use the SOUPS formatting template (available for MS Word or LaTeX) and be up to 12 pages in length, excluding the bibliography and any supplemental appendices. Authors have the option to attach to their paper supplemental appendices containing study materials (e.g. surveys) that would not otherwise fit within the body of the paper. These appendices may be included to assist reviewers who may have questions that fall outside the stated contribution of your paper, on which your work is to be evaluated. Reviewers are not required to read any appendices so your paper should be self contained without them. Accepted papers will be published online with their supplemental appendices included. Submissions must be no more than 20 pages including bibliography and appendices. For the body of your paper, brevity is appreciated, as evidenced by the fact that many papers in prior years have been well under this limit. All submissions must be in PDF format and should not be blinded.

Submit your paper electronically at http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/crp/soups2012/.

Technical paper submissions will close at 5 pm, US Pacific time, Friday, March 9. This is a hard deadline! Authors will be notified of technical paper acceptance by May 16, and camera-ready final versions of technical papers are due June 16.

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Submitted papers must not significantly overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a peer-reviewed venue or publication. Any overlap between your submitted paper and other work either under submission or previously published must be documented in a clearly-marked explanatory note at the front of the paper. State precisely how the two works differ in their goals, any use of shared experiments or data sources, and the unique contributions. If the other work is under submission elsewhere, the program committee may ask to review that work to evaluate the overlap. Please note that program committees frequently share information about papers under review and reviewers usually work on multiple conferences simultaneously. As technical reports are not peer reviewed they are exempt from this rule. You may also release pre-prints of your accepted work to the public at your discretion.

Authors are encouraged to review: Common Pitfalls in Writing about Security and Privacy Human Subjects Experiments, and How to Avoid Them.

User experiments should follow the basic principles of ethical research, e.g., beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the individual), minimal risk (appropriateness of the risk versus benefit ratio), voluntary consent, respect for privacy, and limited deception. New this year: Authors may be asked to include explanation of how ethical principles were followed in their final papers should questions arise during the review process.

Technical Papers Committee
Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Co-Chair)
Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia (Co-Chair)
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Biddle, Carleton University
L. Jean Camp, Indiana University
Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University
Lynne Coventry, Northumbria University
Alexander De Luca, University of Munich
Rachna Dhamija, Usable Security Systems
Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley
Simson L. Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School
Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research
Apu Kapadia, Indiana University
Andrew Patrick, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Rob Reeder, Microsoft
Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research
Diana Smetters, Google
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
Melanie Volkammer, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt
Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM

We seek poster abstracts describing recent or ongoing research or experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. Submissions should use the SOUPS poster template [MS Word] [LaTeX] and be at most two pages including bibliography. Submissions should not be blinded. Accepted poster abstracts will be distributed to symposium participants and made available on the symposium web site. Please follow the final submission formatting instructions when preparing your poster abstract to avoid the need to revise poster abstracts after acceptance decisions are made. In addition, SOUPS will include a poster session in which authors will exhibit their posters. Note, poster abstracts should be formatted like short papers, not like posters. Authors of accepted posters will be sent information about how to prepare and format posters for the conference.

Submit your poster using the electronic submissions page.

We also welcome authors of recent papers (2011 to 2012) on usable privacy and security to present your work at the SOUPS poster session. Please submit in a PDF file: (1) the title and abstract of your conference paper, (2) full bibliographical citation, and (3) a link to the published (official) version, instead of the regular poster abstract.

Submissions will close at 5pm, US Pacific time, May 23.

• Security User Studies Workshop
• Workshop on Usable IT Security Management

Examples of Previous Tutorials:

• Protocol ABCs
• Hands-On Usability Testing
• User Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation
• Introduction to Computer Security and Privacy

Proposals should include the following:

• Title
• Leader(s) (including pertinent biographical information)
• Format (tutorial or workshop)
• Description
• Duration (half or full day)
• Target audience
• (Workshops only) Goals and highlights of the call for participation.

In-depth sessions will be open to all SOUPS attendees. They will generate materials that will be made available on the SOUPS website (tutorial notes, workshop presentations and a report/summary). Workshops will have their own CFP for presentations, abstracts, or short papers, which will be published by February 15.

Send in-depth session proposals to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu by January 13.

Send suggestions or proposals for panels to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu by January 13.

Send suggestions for invited speakers to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu by January 13.

SOUPS 2012 is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon CyLab.