2nd LUH Usable Security and Privacy Conference (Seminar) 2025

The LUH Usable Security and Privacy Conference invites students to scientific exchange on IT security and privacy topics. It brings together literature workers, practitioners and researchers in human factors and usability. All researchers are encouraged to submit their papers fitting these topics.

Paper submissions are allowed concerning any topic in the area of usable security and privacy in the context of computing systems. This includes the topics listed below, but may include other topics not contained in the list as well. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy for computing systems will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

• Security: Operating system security, web security, mobile systems security, distributed systems security, cloud computing security
• Attacks and countermeasures: Social Engineering, Phishing, Spam, Vishing, Spear-Phishing, SMS-Phishing
• Privacy: Anonymity, Web and mobile privacy, privacy-reserving computation, privacy attacks, surveillance
• Human activity in the context of security and privacy: Thinking and behaving, attitude and beliefs, perceptions and misconceptions, usability studies, usage studies, authentication
• Social issues in security and privacy: Research on computer security and privacy laws and policy, ethics of computer security research, security and privacy education and training, information manipulation and misinformation

The deadlines listed above apply. All submissions have to be made online through the HotCRP site at: https://conference.itsec.uni-hannover.de/hotcrp/

Submissions must be in PDF format and follow the submission criteria and guidelines. Organizers may reject work that does not follow the criteria. Submissions should be complete papers with at least four and a maximum of 6 pages excluding appendix and references. The appendix and references should be no longer than 6 pages and should be combined with the paper in one PDF file. The LaTeX template including page layout, column format and font information must be used. Please make sure you submit a readable and well formatted PDF without major style or grammar errors. Only papers in German and English are allowed.

The review process will be anonymous. To enable this, papers must be in a form suitable for anonymous review: The title page should not contain any name or affiliation and in tables, figures and appendices no names should be accidentally included. It is allowed to add links to websites that contain your source code, tools or survey questions, but this link should not inform about your person or affiliation.

We expect researchers to respect the integrity of human subjects and to protect privacy and personal rights when conducting research with them. Risks must be considered and documented, as must be the information provided to the test subjects about the procedure and possible consequences of the respective study. Collected data must be treated confidentially and in accordance with data protection regulations only with appropriate consent and special care. We encourage to check the Menlo Report available at https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CSD-MenloPrinciplesCORE-20120803_1.pdf.

All papers will be published for the conference via Stud.IP for all people in the course two days before the conference.

Program Committee members who have a conflict of interest with a paper will not review this paper by default. To make this possible all authors have to identify members of the program committee with whom they share a conflict. This includes:

1. anyone the author has collaborated or worked together in the last year
2. close personal relationships
3. the author himself/herself

Organizing Committee

Leibniz Unversity Hannover, Institute for IT-Security, FG Usable Security and Privacy

Maike Raphael, Leibniz University Hannover

Markus Dürmuth, Leibniz University Hannover

Program Committee (Reviewers)

TBD

For questions related to paper submissions, please send email to: konferenzseminar-usp@itsec.uni-hannover.de

For questions related to the organisation of LUH Usable Security and Privacy Conference please send email to: konferenzseminar-usp@itsec.uni-hannover.de