[Submission Deadline Postponed to June 26] Call for Papers, Posters & Demos: 2nd Workshop on XRSecurity

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*                       CALL FOR PAPERS**    Submission Deadline Postponed
to June 26*
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https://xrsecurity.github.io/2026/

Extended Reality (XR) is a comprehensive term that includes Augmented
Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR), and AI glasses. XR
bridges physical and digital worlds, creating interactive, immersive
experiences that merge with the real world. It offers numerous applications
across education, training, manufacturing, collaborative 3D design, art,
and multiplayer gaming.

Despite these benefits, XR systems introduce unique security, privacy, and
trust challenges due to the intimate connection between users, their XR
devices, and their immediate environments. The potential attacks can
involve information flooding to induce latency and physical discomfort,
injecting misleading virtual content to distract or deceive users,
subverting personal area networks to create confusion, spoofing alarms,
assessing user status through eye tracking, and accessing onboard cameras
to gather environmental information without the user's awareness.
Additionally, XR apps can access sensitive real-time inputs like eye gaze,
head movement, hand gestures, and even biosignals, and users' immediate
environment. These signals, while critical for immersive experiences, open
up novel attack surfaces such as keystroke inference, emotional profiling,
and behavioral tracking.

This workshop will explore the security, privacy, and trust challenges in
XR systems, along with potential solutions. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

   - Threat modeling and risk assessment in XR environments
   - Secure data transmission and storage in XR systems
   - Privacy-preserving techniques for XR applications
   - Authentication and access control mechanisms for XR
   - AI-driven security solutions for XR
   - Case studies and real-world applications of secure XR systems
   - Side-channel vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies in XR systems
   - Security in shared or collaborative XR environments
   - Human-centered and usable security designs for XR
   - Security and privacy in edge-assisted and cloud-connected XR platforms

*For more information please visit the website(*
https://xrsecurity.github.io/2026/*)*

   - Submission Guidelines
   - A *full paper* should NOT exceed *6 pages* (US letter size) double
      column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format.
      Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form
via the HotCRP
      submission website <https://xrsecurity2026.hotcrp.com/>. Templates
      for the standard ACM format can be found at this link
      <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/>.
      - A *poster* or *demo* paper is limited to *2 pages* under the same
      formatting guidelines.
   - Important Dates
      - *Paper Submission Deadline:        June 26, 2026*
      - Notification of Acceptance:         July 31, 2026
      - Camera-Ready Submission:        August 21, 2026
      - *Workshop day:*                          *October 30, 2026*

Organizers

   - Dr. Maria Gorlatova <https://ece.duke.edu/people/maria-gorlatova/>,
   Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
   - Dr. Bin Li <https://sites.psu.edu/binli/>, Department of Electrical
   Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
   - Dr. Ming Li <https://ranger.uta.edu/~mingli/>, Department of Computer
   Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

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