Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

August 7–11, 2020
Co-located with
USENIX Security '20

Thanks to those who joined us for the Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2020). We hope you enjoyed the event.

SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, security, and privacy.

As part of our commitment to open access to research, the workshop/conference papers, presentation slides, and videos are free and open to the public on the SOUPS 2020 program page.

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SOUPS 2020 Awards

Distinguished Paper Award

Blind and Human: Exploring More Usable Audio CAPTCHA Designs
Valerie Fanelle, Sepideh Karimi, Aditi Shah, Bharath Subramanian, and Sauvik Das, Georgia Institute of Technology

IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

"I Have a Narrow Thought Process": Constraints on Explanations Connecting Inferences and Self-Perceptions
Emilee Rader, Samantha Hautea, and Anjali Munasinghe, Michigan State University

John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award

Daniel Votipka, University of Maryland

SOUPS 2020 Impact Award

Folk Models of Home Computer Security
Rick Wash
SOUPS 2010

Honorable Mention
Where Do Security Policies Come From?
Dinei Florêncio and Cormac Herley
SOUPS 2010

About SOUPS 2020

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Symposium Organizers

Heather Richter Lipford
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
General Chair

Technical Papers Co-Chairs

Joe Calandrino, Federal Trade Commission
Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland

Technical Papers Committee

Adam Aviv, The George Washington University
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
Cristian Bravo-Lillo, Ciberseguridad Humana, Chile
Lynne Coventry, Northumbria University
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
Heather Crawford, Florida Institute of Technology
Serge Egelman, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and University of California, Berkeley
Sascha Fahl, Leibniz University Hannover
Carrie Gates, Bank of America
Maximilian Golla, Max Planck Institute for Cyber Security and Privacy
Julie Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Marian Harbach, Google
Jun Ho Huh, Samsung Research
Maritza Johnson, Google
Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington
Jennifer King, Stanford University
Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Janne Lindqvist, Aalto University and Rutgers University
Abigail Marsh, Macalester College
Susan E. McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
Robert Reeder, Google
Irwin Reyes, Two Six Labs
Scott Ruoti, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University
Manya Sleeper, Google
Elizabeth Stobert, Carleton University
Jose Miguel Such, King's College London
Blase Ur, University of Chicago
Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Google
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
Josephine Wolff, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Mary Ellen Zurko, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lightning Talks and Demos Co-Chairs

Yousra Javed, Illinois State University
Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Karat Award Chair

Rick Wash, Michigan State University

Posters Co-Chairs

Heather Crawford, Florida Institute of Technology
Maximilian Golla, Max Planck Institute of Cyber Security and Privacy

Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chairs

Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Saarland
Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University

Mentoring Co-Chairs

Adam Aviv, The George Washington University
Daniela Napoli, Carleton University
Daniel Votipka, University of Maryland

Publicity Co-Chairs

Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage, University of New South Wales
Yaxing Yao, Syracuse University

Email List Chair

Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

Accessibility Chair

Rich Williams, USENIX Association

USENIX Liaison

Casey Henderson, USENIX Association

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