Overview

The 2025 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, including replication papers and systematization of knowledge papers
    Workshops and tutorials
    A poster session
    Lightning talks

Technical Papers

We invite authors to submit previously unpublished papers describing research or experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. We welcome a variety of research methods, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Papers will be judged on their scientific quality, overall quality, and contribution to the field. Topics include, but are not limited to:

    Innovative security or privacy functionality and design
    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
    Studies of administrators or developers and support for security and privacy
    Organizational policy or procurement decisions and their impact on security and privacy
    Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features
    Foundational principles of usable security or privacy
    Ethical, psychological, sociological, or anthropological aspects of usable security and privacy
    Usable security and privacy implications/solutions for specific domains (e.g., IoT, medical, vulnerable populations)
    Replicating or extending important previously published studies and experiments
    Systematization of knowledge papers that integrate and systematize existing knowledge to provide new insight into a previously studied area