2026 IEEE CSR Workshop on Human Factors in Cyber Security (HFaCS)

 Call for Papers

Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience are topics of utmost importance these days, as we live in an increasingly connected world with growing dependence on computing systems for everything. In principle, there are many foundational security mechanisms that can be utilized to achieve strong security properties while designing secure systems. However, despite the widespread availability and continuous advancement of cybersecurity technologies, still a lot of cyber security incidents happen. It is important to note, though, that these incidents are sometimes not caused by flaws in the available technologies but rather come from using them wrongly or not at all. If we want to establish basic security measures, e.g. digital signatures or multi-factor authentication, as cornerstones of modern digital systems, we need to find out what reasons are behind not using them. Is it a lack of awareness, are systems too complicated to use, or is there another reason? With this workshop we want to put a special focus on the human factor for Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience, because even the best technology will not work according to plan if it is not or not correctly used.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Adoption of Security Measures
› Security-related Mental Models
› Organizational Culture
› Adoption Barriers for Security Measures
› Increasing Awareness for Security Issues

› Human-centered Design of Secure Systems
› Usable Security
› Technology Refusal
› User Friction
› User Compliance

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 4, 2026
Camera-ready submission: May 25, 2026
Registration deadline (authors): May 25, 2026
Workshop dates: August 3–5, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to HFaCS workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T9 HFaCS is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

m.werf@maastrichtuniversity.nl
b.kuppers@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Technical Program Committee

Bart Mennink, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University (NL)
Mark Drost, Route443 (NL)
Mikhail Glazunov, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University (NL)
Hanna Schraffenberger, iHub, Radboud University (NL)
Theodor Schnitzler, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University (NL)
David Groep, NIKHEF (NL)
Ashish Sai, Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University (NL)

Program Information