CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/ 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, invited talks, lightning talks, demos, workshops, and tutorials. This year SOUPS will be held in Washington, DC. TECHNICAL PAPERS Deadline: March 9, 2012, 5 pm US Pacific time Anonymization: Papers are NOT to be anonymized Length: 12 pages excluding bibliography & non-essential appendices (20 pages max) Formatting: Use SOUPS MS Word or LaTeX templates Submission site: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/crp/soups2012/ We invite authors to submit original papers describing research or experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. Topics include, but are not limited to: - innovative security or privacy functionality and design, - new applications of existing models or technology, - field studies of security or privacy technology, - usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy features, - security testing of new or existing usability features, - longitudinal studies of deployed security or privacy features, - the impact of organizational policy or procurement decisions, and - lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features, - reports of replicating previously published studies and experiments, - reports of failed usable security studies or experiments, with the focus on the lessons learned from such experience. All submissions must relate to both usability and either security or privacy. Papers on security or privacy applications that do not address usability or human factors will not be considered. Papers need to describe the purpose and goals of the work, cite related work, show how the work effectively integrates usability and security or privacy, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work or lessons learned as well as the contribution of the work to the field. 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 IMPORTANT DATES Early registration deadline - June 8 Conference - July 11-13 Technical papers Submission deadline - March 9, 5 pm US Pacific time (hard deadline!) Notification of paper acceptance - May 16 Camera ready papers due - June 16 Posters and demos Submission deadline - May 23, 5 pm US Pacific time Notification of acceptance - June 6 Tutorials and workshops In-depth session proposal submission deadline - January 13 Notification of in-depth session proposal acceptance - January 27 Workshop paper submission deadline - May 8 Notification of workshop paper acceptance - June 6 Camera ready papers due - June 16 Panels and invited talks Panel proposal submission deadline - January 13 Speaker suggestion submission deadline - January 13 Lightning talks Submission deadline - June 29 Notification of acceptance - July 6