HATS Workshop

August 23, 2026

Workshop on Designing Human-AI Teaming for Security @ SOUPS 2026

Exploring how to balance human agency and AI autonomy in high-stakes cybersecurity decision-making.

Topic & Goals · Call for Participation · Program · Accepted Papers · Topics · Organizers

Workshop Topic & Goals

The Workshop on Designing Human-AI Teaming for Security (HATS) addresses a central challenge for modern cybersecurity: as AI becomes more agentic, guaranteed human oversight is eroding.

HATS brings together researchers and practitioners to examine how human-AI teaming can strengthen security operations while preserving meaningful human agency in decision-making.

Objectives

Co-create design principles for human-AI teaming in cybersecurity decision-making.
Formulate actionable interaction design recommendations for research and practice.
Build interdisciplinary networks that continue beyond the workshop.

Call for Participation

We invite short position papers and contributions related to human-AI teaming in cybersecurity.

This is an open-door workshop until capacity is filled. Preference will be given to authors and participants who have signed up.

Submission deadline: ~~June 1, 2026~~
Notification to authors: ~~June 15, 2026~~
Camera-ready deadline: ~~June 25, 2026~~

Download the Call for Papers Submission Portal

To participate, please submit a two- to four-page position paper on decision-making and human-AI teaming in cybersecurity. Submissions must follow the SOUPS formatting template. Submissions should not be anonymised. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend in person. Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings.

Workshop-only tickets: If you are interested, please contact soups26chairs@googlegroups.com.

Style file: Download the workshop style file hats2026.sty.

Program

More details coming soon!

The workshop takes place on Sunday afternoon, August 23, 2026 and follows a half-day format. The detailed program will be finalized after paper acceptance.

Part 1: Shared context and lightning rounds — We begin with an introduction session, followed by short lightning talks and group formation.
Break
Part 2: Collaborative design — Groups run a guided co-design session (double-diamond inspired).
Vernissage and open discussion — Groups share outputs in a vernissage-style gallery walk, followed by open discussion and synthesis.

Accepted Papers

Download the workshop style file hats2026.sty. If you need a workshop-only ticket, please contact soups26chairs@googlegroups.com.

User-Agentified Security
Filipo Sharevski (DePaul University)

Keeping Humans in Practice: Skill Atrophy as a Design Constraint for Human-AI Teaming in Cybersecurity
Tarini Saka (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy)

The State of Human (Un) Centered AI Security Research
Leandra Willi, Rebecca Balebako (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW))

Application of Explainable AI in Identifying Fraudulent Transactions
Guanming Shi (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy)

Contestable Reasoning Structures for Human-AI Teaming in SOC Investigations
Despoina Giarimpampa (University of Luxembourg); Roland Meier (Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse); Tegawendé F. BISSYANDE, Vincent Lenders, Jacques Klein (University of Luxembourg)

Human-AI CTI Triage: Boundary Policies for Safe and Efficient Analyst Workflows
Jan Henri Beyer, Philipp Kühn, Markus Bayer (PEASEC, TU Darmstadt)

Error Taxonomy and Recovery Patterns for AI-Augmented CTI Pipelines
Philipp Kühn, Markus Bayer, Jan Henri Beyer (PEASEC, TU Darmstadt)

Position: Human Factors Reshape Adversarial Analysis in Human-AI Decision-Making Systems
Shutong Fan, Lan Zhang, Xiaoyong (Brian) Yuan (Clemson University)

Topics of Interest

Example themes include (but are not limited to):

Designing appropriate automation levels and agentic AI in cybersecurity
Automation bias, trust calibration, and employee perceptions of AI decisions
Human-centric frameworks and workflows for shared security decision-making
AI-augmented threat hunting, signal processing, and SOC triage
Technical, psychological, interpersonal, and societal risks in human-AI security workflows
Error handling in AI-driven security tools and organizational implications
Deployment barriers and facilitators for human-AI collaboration in enterprise security
Human-AI teaming opportunities to address cybersecurity workforce shortages