1st Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in XR Systems

First Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality (XR) Systems

Extended Reality (XR) is a comprehensive term that includes Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR). 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

Organizers

• Dr. Maria Gorlatova, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

• Dr. Bin Li, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

• Dr. Ming Li, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Technical Program Committee

• Dr. Long Cheng, Clemson University

• Dr. Hanting Ye, Duke University

• Dr. Jiasi Chen , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Dr. Sheng Wei, Rutgers University

• Dr. Ying Chen, Penn State

• Yasra Chandio , University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Dr. Linke Guo , Clemson University

• Dr. Brendan David-John, Virginia Tech

• Dr. Guohao Lan, Delft University of Technology

• Dr. Xiaokuan Zhang, George Mason University

• Kaiming Cheng, University of Washington/Meta

• Dr. Zhisheng Yan, George Mason University

• Dr. Bo Ji, Virginia Tech

• Dr. Fatima Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Yicheng Zhang, University of California Riverside

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025

• Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2025

• Camera-Ready Submission: August 29, 2025

• Workshop day: October 30, 2025

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 submissing website. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link.

• A poster paper is limited to 2 pages under the same formatting guidelines.