The human element is often considered the weakest element in security. Although many kinds of humans interact with systems that are designed to be secure, one particular type of human is especially important, the security and privacy information workers who develop, use, and manipulate privacy and security-related information and data as a significant part of their jobs. Security/privacy information workers include:
This workshop aims to develop and stimulate discussion about security information workers. We will consider topics including but not limited to:
Successful submissions to this workshop will explicitly be informed by an understanding of how security/privacy information workers do their jobs, and the results will explicitly address how we understand these workers.
We solicit papers describing new research contributions in this area as well as case studies,
work in progress, preliminary results, novel ideas, and position papers. Papers should be atmost six pages (excluding references) using the SOUPS template format (MS Word or LaTeX).
Submissions should be fully anonymized. Submissions may be made at https://wsiw2021.usenix.hotcrp.com/.
A word about paper length. Papers should be succinct, but thorough in presenting the work. Typical papers will be 5-6 pages long (plus references) but papers can be shorter (e.g. 2-3 pages) if, for example, they present an novel idea with limited preliminary results or a position likely to drive a lively discussion. Shorter, more focused papers are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. If you only need 2 or 4 pages (plus references) to clearly explain your work or idea, please submit a paper of that length. Reviewers will be instructed to assess the value of the talk to the workshop audience irrespective of the paper length; however, we stress again that the presentation should be sufficiently thorough for reviewers to make this evaluation.
Workshop papers will be made available to attendees prior to the workshop. However, they will not appear in the official SOUPS proceedings. Paper presentations will be approximately 10-12 minutes in length followed by 5 minutes of questions and answers. Presentations will be made remotely using Zoom.
The workshop will feature a keynote talk and paper presentations, as well as breakout sessions to provide an opportunity for smaller group interactive discussion about related topics of interest, which may include methods, challenges, and future directions in security information workers research.
The deadline for submissions is June 10th 23:59 AoE (extended) May 27 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
You can find out more at http://security-information-workers.org/
or by emailing wsiw@sec.uni-hannover.de.
| Workshop paper submission deadline | Thursday June 10, 2021 (extended) |
| Workshop paper acceptance notification to authors | Monday, June 21, 2021 |
| Workshop camera-ready papers due | Wednesday, June 30, 2021 |
| Workshop | Sunday, August 8, 2021 |