Call for Papers

We invite you to participate in the 20th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, which will be held in Örebro, Sweden. The event will run over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from across the international community.

The symposium welcomes papers addressing research and case studies in relation to any aspect of information security that pertains to the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of people, and how human characteristics or technologies may be positively modified to improve the level of protection. Indicative themes include the following list of topics (related topics will also be considered):

• Information security culture
• Awareness and education methods
• Enhancing risk perception
• Public understanding of security
• Usable security
• Psychological models of security software usage
• User acceptance of security policies and technologies
• User-friendly authentication methods
• Biometric technologies and impacts
• Automating security functionality
• Non-intrusive security
• Assisting security administration
• Impacts of standards, policies, compliance requirements
• Organizational governance for information assurance
• Simplifying risk and threat assessment
• Understanding motivations for misuse
• Social engineering and other human-related risks
• Privacy attitudes and practices
• Computer ethics and security

Important Dates

• April 3 2026 - Deadline for submission of papers
• May 6 2026 - Notification of paper acceptance
• June 5 2026 - Deadline for camera ready paper submission
• June 5 2026 - Deadline for author registraiton

Paper Submission, review and publication

The conference is the official event of IFIP Working Group 11.12 and proceedings will be published by Springer in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT) series.

All papers will be indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar and Scopus.

Important Dates:

April 3 2026

Deadline for submission of papers.

May 6 2026

Notification of paper acceptance.

June 5 2026

Deadline for camera ready paper submission and author registration.