Second Workshop on 
Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality (XR) Systems
https://xrsecurity.github.io/2026/
A workshop of ACM MobiCom
October 30, 2026
Austin, TX

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

We successfully organized the first workshop on enhancing security,
privacy, and trust in extended reality systems, co‑located with ACM
MobiHoc 2025, attracted more than 30 attendees. It featured one
keynote speaker; four invited speakers, including one from industry; a
panel on securing XR experiences; nine full papers; five demos; and
twelve posters. Here is the website for the first workshop:
https://xrsecurity.github.io/2025/ 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

Keynote Speaker
TBD

Invited Talks
TBD

Technical Program Committee
TBD

Important Dates

    Paper Submission Deadline:          June 5, 2026
    Notification of Acceptance:         July 31, 2026
    Camera-Ready Submission:            August 21, 2026
    Workshop day:                       October 30, 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 submissing website. Templates for the standard
    ACM format can be found at this link.

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