Thanks to everyone who joined us in Denver, CO, for SOUPS 2016. As part of our commitment to open access to research, the full Proceedings, audio recordings, and presentation slides are available on the SOUPS 2016 program page.

SOUPS 2016 was co-located with the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.

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SOUPS 2017
July 12-14, 2017
Santa Clara, CA

SOUPS 2016 Awards

Distinguished Paper Award

Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends
Diogo Marques, Ildar Muslukhov, Tiago Guerreiro, Luís Carriço, and Konstantin Beznosov

IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

Follow My Recommendations: A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions
Bin Liu, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Florian Schaub, Hazim Almuhimedi, Shikun (Aerin) Zhang, Norman Sadeh, Alessandro Acquisti, and Yuvraj Agarwal

Distinguished Poster Awards

The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps
Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman, Bojan Karlas, and Karl Aberer

The Sounds of Cyber Threats
Akbar Siami Namin, Rattikorn Hewett, Keith S. Jones, and Rona Pogrund

Risk Compensation in Home-User Computer Security Behavior:
A Mixed-Methods Exploratory Study

Sarah Pearman, Arnab Kumar, Nicholas Munson, Charu Sharma, Leeyat Slyper, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin,
and Serge Egelman

John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award

Blase Ur, Carnegie Mellon University

Nominees

  • Sauvik Das, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University
  • Maryam Mehrnezhad, Newcastle University
  • Scott Ruoti, Brigham Young University
  • Blase Ur, Carnegie Mellon University

Award Committee

  • Mary Ellen Zurko, Cisco Systems (Chair)
  • Simson Garfinkel, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Cormac Herley, Microsoft
  • Clare-Marie Karat, IBM T.J. Watson Research, retired
  • Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh