With safety in mind, the upcoming Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2020) will take place as a virtual event. To maintain WAY's interactive nature in this new virtual setting, we will make use of live presentations via Zoom (and Slack), but also offer the option to pre-record the talk, if you cannot attend the workshop virtually.
Update: To enable more people to participate, we decided to move the workshop from Sunday 9th to Friday 7th of August, 2020.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry to share experiences, concerns, and ideas about known and new authentication techniques. We are interested in discussing methods of evaluating the impact and usability of various authentication techniques, and ideas about novel authentication techniques that are secure, robust and usable. This year, WAY will also accept short reports from industry and public entities on authentication.
Authentication, or the act of proving that someone is who they claim to be, is a cornerstone of security. The importance of authentication continues to grow as users must prove their identity to maintain a continuous presence with a wide variety of computing devices and services.
The goal of this workshop is to explore these and related topics across the broad range of contexts, including enterprise systems, personal systems, and especially mobile and embedded systems (such as healthcare, smart home, IoT, and wearable systems). This workshop provides an informal and interdisciplinary setting at the intersection of security, psychological, and behavioral science.
Workshop papers and presentations will be made available on the conference web page but are considered non-archival. WAY fosters a supportive and constructive environment for sharing ideas and giving feedback. We welcome submissions about new and ongoing work, as well as completed projects.
Submissions should be formatted using the SOUPS submission template (available for MS Word or LaTeX) and submitted as a PDF. Submissions should not be anonymous.
Submissions should be made via the WAY 2020 HotCRP instance: https://way2020.usenix.hotcrp.com
We are soliciting 4-5 page submissions (including references) on topics relating to authentication. Accepted submissions will be posted to the WAY workshop website (wayworkshop.org). We encourage participants to also make their workshop presentations available on the website. These submissions will not be considered "published" work, and as such, should not preclude publication elsewhere.
We are looking for contributions from industry or public entities in the following form: a 1-page report (around 700 words) together with a slide deck for a presentation of approx. 15 minutes. We do not want product pitches, or slides from marketing/sales representatives. All submissions will be reviewed, and authors acknowledge to improve their slides as needed.