Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND PROPOSALS

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The 2011 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, discussion sessions, and in-depth sessions (workshops and tutorials). This year SOUPS will be held in Pittsburgh, PA.

See important dates below.

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 should mention how the authors addressed any ethical considerations applicable to the research and user studies, such as passing an IRB review (see examples).

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/soups/.

Technical paper submissions will close at 5 PM, US Pacific time, Friday, March 11. This is a hard deadline! Authors will be notified of technical paper acceptance by May 18, and camera-ready final versions of technical papers are due June 15.

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.

New This Year: Borrowing heavily from the practices of top security and HCI conferences, SOUPS is adding a second stage of reviewing in which program committee members will be asked to provide additional reviews on papers for which the first-stage reviews did not reach a strong consensus. We are also introducing an in-person program committee meeting at which all PC members will be present. The goal of these changes is to ensure that all papers are evaluated to the same standards and by the full program committee. Please direct any questions or comments to the Technical Program Co-Chairs at soups-chairs AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu.

Technical Papers Committee
Heather Lipford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Co-Chair)
Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research (Co-Chair)
Ross Anderson, Cambridge
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia
Robert Biddle, Carleton University
Bill Cheswick, AT&T Research
Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University
Alexander De Luca, University of Munich
Rachna Dhamija, Usable Security Systems
Serge Egelman, NIST University
Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School
Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research
Linda Little, Northumbria University, UK
Andrew Patrick, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Rob Reeder, Microsoft
Angela Sasse, University College London
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
Hao-Chi Wong, Intel
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 (2010 to 2011) 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 28.

Proposals for discussion sessions should be submitted via email to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu

Submissions will close at 5pm, US Pacific time, May 28.

• 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 12.

Send suggestions or proposals for panels to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu by January 12.

Send suggestions for invited speakers to sessions AT cups DOT cs DOT cmu DOT edu by January 12.

SOUPS 2011 is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon CyLab and Microsoft.