Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

The second Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) was held July 12-14, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. This symposium brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program featured technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions.

The first formal gathering of researchers actively working in this interdisciplinary area took place at the CHI 2003 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Security Systems. A larger Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security Software (WUPSS) was held at the DIMACS Center at Rutgers in July 2004. WUPSS participants expressed a desire for an event that would combine a refereed papers track with less formal research discussions. In July 2005 the first SOUPS conference took place in Pittsburgh, PA.

NEWS

Ralph Brown's SOUPS photos are now posted

SOUPS in the news: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ACM permissions forms and other information for authors of accepted papers is now available.

Join the soups-announce mailing list to receive occasional SOUPS announcements, including CFPs and deadline extensions

The SOUPS 2006 proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library. You can also download individual papers directly from the SOUPS web site by clicking on the links in the program.

Ka-ping Yee's Usable Security Blog also serves as the SOUPS blog

SOUPS is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon CyLab.