Call for papers
People increasingly live, work, study, and play in smart spaces. These smart spaces are everyday spaces that include embedded computing devices — computational devices that interact with each other, with their surroundings and its occupants, and with Internet services. Many of these smart things can sense their physical surroundings to collect data about the physical space or its occupants; examples include the capability to measure sound, light, motion, image, temperature, air quality, or physical state (door open/close, water flow, vibration, etc.). Some smart things also have the ability to actuate on their surroundings, thus changing the physical state of their environment; examples include heating and cooling, unlocking doors, turning on/off lights, playing music or video, speaking text, and more.
Needless to say, these so-called smart spaces raise potentially serious risks for security of the spaces and privacy of their residents, visitors, and bystanders. This workshop will assemble a range of thought leaders — academics, industry product developers, and policy makers — to consider the latest research related to security and privacy of smart spaces, and to identify further research challenges that must be addressed. The workshop will include presentations of papers submitted through this Call for Papers; accepted papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library and the Adjunct Proceedings.
Workshop details
- Date: October 13, 2025
- Location: Aalto University, Espoo, Finland (in conjunction with UbiComp 2025)
- Format: Single-day in-person workshop consisting of a combination of accepted paper presentations and invited talks.
Workshop paper submissions
Six-page papers are welcomed on a broad range of topics related to security and privacy issues that are unique to (or especially relevant in) smart spaces, including but not limited to
- Architectures for secure and private instrumented spaces
- Security of consumer technology, including potential harm and assessment of harm
- Usable solutions to privacy and security issues for IoT
- Policy issues, including privacy policies and regulations
- Privacy-preserving data sharing and analysis
- Adversarial machine learning
- Adversarial sensing and intrusion detection
- Security of IoT network protocols
- Human activity inference and network traffic analysis
- User identification and authentication
- Trustworthy device commissioning, updating, and decommissioning
- Generative AI and LLMs for sensing security and privacy
- Bystander privacy
- Privacy for Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality.
Submission instructions
All workshop papers must use the UbiComp/ISWC 2025 templates and formatting instructions.
Submit using Precision Conference. From the Submissions tab, choose Society=SIGCHI, Conference/Journal=UbiComp/ISWC 2025, Track=UbiComp/ISWC 2025 Privacy and Security in Smart Spaces (PaSSS).
Deadlines
- June 30, 2025: Submission deadline (extended from June 15, 2025)
- July 11, 2025: Notification date
- July 31, 2025: Camera-ready version due
Organizing committee
Organizers
- David Kotz, Dartmouth College
- Athina Markopoulou, UC Irvine
- Tim Pierson, Dartmouth College
TPC
- Jared Chandler, Dartmouth
- David Choffnes, Northeastern University
- Salma Elmalaki, UC Irvine
- Hamed Haddadi, Imperial College London
- Weijia He, Southampton University
- Tu Le, UC Irvine
- Nathan Reitinger, University of Maryland
- Utz Roedig, University of Cork
- Yuan Tian, UC Los Angeles
Contact
For inquiries, please contact us at passs25chairs@gmail.com.