EyeSec Workshop on Eye-Gaze for Security Applications

EyeSec 2021

Eye tracking has developed in the past years from being a technology that can be used only in labs and controlled settings, to a pervasive technology that is gradually weaving into our everyday lives. Advances in visual computing as well as in sensors and processing power of ubiquitous devices allow accurate gaze estimation and a myriad of applications for desktop settings, mobile devices, public displays, head-mounted displays, wearables and other ubicomp technologies. These advancements pave the way for eye tracking to deliver its promises on off-the-shelf devices. At the same time, eye movements are subtle and have been deemed attractive for security and privacy protection applications. The aim of EyeSec 2021 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, discuss the most important challenges and opportunities of using eye gaze for security, and to identify directions for future research.

Workshop Goals

The main goal of EyeSec 2021 is to bring researchers and practitioners from the fields of eye tracking, human-computer interaction, and security together to identify and discuss challenges and opportunities of eye tracking in the context of security applications. The EyeSec 2020 community will investigate the following areas:

• Authentication: gaze is used for explicit, implicit, and multi-factor authentication;
• Privacy protection: gaze is used to protect the privacy of users (e.g., displaying content that is being looked at while hiding the rest from shoulder surfers);
• Improving security based on gaze behavior: by analyzing the gaze behavior, systems can uncover user states (e.g., nervousness when reading a phishing email, or carelessness when creating a password) and intervene accordingly to improve security;
• Understanding user state from gaze behavior in security-critical situations;
• Identify challenges that need to be addressed before adopting gaze-based security applications.

EyeSec 2021 will provide intellectual stimuli and build bridges for future collaborations among researcher and practitioners from the aforementioned fields.

Topics of interest

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Novel Authentication Concepts;
• (Gaze) Biometrics;
• Privacy protection solutions;
• Threat models;
• UX of gaze-based security systems;
• Challenges of gaze interaction in security contexts;
• Novel methods;
• Long term data collection/deployments;
• Ethical and societal implication;
• Privacy implications of gaze systems.

Workshop Format

EyeSec 2021 will be a half-day workshop that is held in conjunction with ETRA 2021. It will feature a series of group discussions and hands-on activities, which include the use of eye tracking for improving security and methods that the workshop organizers will make available on the workshop day.

Important Dates

	Short papers	Position papers
Submission deadline	Feb 20th, 2021 Feb 28th, 2021	Mar 8th, 2021
Notifications	Mar 15th, 2021	Mar 15th, 2021
Camera-ready deadline	Mar 30th, 2021	Mar 30th, 2021
Workshop	May 27th, 2021	May 27th, 2021