HASP LAB

The Human-centred and AI Security, Ethics and Privacy (HASP) Lab is a research lab working at the intersection between Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, and Human-Computer Interaction. HASP is based at INGENIO, an interdisciplinary research centre and joint venture between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.

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news

Jan 16, 2026	Five papers accepted at CHI 2026.
Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details

selected publications

IEEE S&P

Privacy Perspectives and Practices of Chinese Smart Home Product Teams

Shijing He, Yaxiong Lei, Xiao Zhan, Chi Zhang, Juan Ye, Ruba Abu-Salma, and Jose Such

In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Sep 2026

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{he2026privacy,
  title = {Privacy Perspectives and Practices of Chinese Smart Home Product Teams},
  author = {He, Shijing and Lei, Yaxiong and Zhan, Xiao and Zhang, Chi and Ye, Juan and Abu-Salma, Ruba and Such, Jose},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  day = {9},
  booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S\&P)},
}

Usenix SEC

Voice Application Developer Experiences with Alexa and Google Assistant: Juggling Risks, Liability, and Security

William Seymour, Noura Abdi, Kopo Ramokapane, Jide Edu, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, and Jose Such

In USENIX Security Symposium (SEC), 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{seymour2024voice,
  author = {Seymour, William and Abdi, Noura and Ramokapane, Kopo and Edu, Jide and Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo and Such, Jose},
  title = {Voice Application Developer Experiences with Alexa and Google Assistant: Juggling Risks, Liability, and Security},
  booktitle = {{USENIX Security Symposium (SEC)}},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {5035--5052},
}

Usenix SEC

Malicious LLM-Based Conversational AI Makes Users Reveal Personal Information

Xiao Zhan, Juan-Carlos Carrillo, William Seymour, and Jose Such

In USENIX Security Symposium (SEC), 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{zhan2025malicious,
  author = {Zhan, Xiao and Carrillo, Juan-Carlos and Seymour, William and Such, Jose},
  title = {Malicious LLM-Based Conversational AI Makes Users Reveal Personal Information},
  booktitle = {{USENIX Security Symposium (SEC)}},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {In press.}
}

CHI

Privacy Perceptions of Custom GPTs by Users and Creators

Rongjun Ma, Caterina Maidhof, Juan Carlos Carrillo, Janne Lindqvist, and Jose Such

In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{ma2025privacy,
  author = {Ma, Rongjun and Maidhof, Caterina and Carrillo, Juan Carlos and Lindqvist, Janne and Such, Jose},
  title = {Privacy Perceptions of Custom GPTs by Users and Creators},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing
                    Systems {(CHI)}},
  pages = {237:1--237:18},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2025}
}

ICML

CASE-Bench: Context-Aware Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

Guangzhi Sun, Xiao Zhan, Shutong Feng, Philip C. Woodland, and Jose Such

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{sun2025case,
  author = {Sun, Guangzhi and Zhan, Xiao and Feng, Shutong and Woodland, Philip C. and Such, Jose},
  title = {CASE-Bench: Context-Aware Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language
                    Models},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning {(ICML)}},
  pages = {In press.},
  year = {2025},
}

CHI

Legal Obligation and Ethical Best Practice: Towards Meaningful Verbal Consent for Voice Assistants

William Seymour, Mark Coté, and Jose Such

In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{seymour2023legal,
  author = {Seymour, William and Cot{\'{e}}, Mark and Such, Jose},
  title = {Legal Obligation and Ethical Best Practice: Towards Meaningful Verbal
                    Consent for Voice Assistants},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ({CHI})},
  pages = {166:1--166:16},
  year = {2023}
}

IJCAI

Privacy and Autonomous Systems

Jose Such

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{such2017privacy,
  title = {Privacy and Autonomous Systems},
  author = {Such, Jose},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
  pages = {4761--4767},
  year = {2017},
}

CHI

Privacy Norms for Smart Home Personal Assistants

Noura Abdi, Xiao Zhan, Kopo Ramokapane, and Jose Such

In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{abdi2021privacy,
  title = {Privacy Norms for Smart Home Personal Assistants},
  author = {Abdi, Noura and Zhan, Xiao and Ramokapane, Kopo and Such, Jose},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {558:1--558:14},
}

AAMAS

ELVIRA: an Explainable Agent for Value and Utility-driven Multiuser Privacy

Francesca Mosca and Jose Such

In International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2021

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{mosca2021elvira,
  title = {ELVIRA: an Explainable Agent for Value and Utility-driven Multiuser Privacy},
  author = {Mosca, Francesca and Such, Jose},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},
  pages = {916-924},
  year = {2021},
}