Privacy & security
Privacy-preserving techniques; sensor-rich and context-aware systems; responsible collection, sharing, and use of personal and behavioural data.
6th International Workshop · MUM ’26
What does your
gaze reveal?
Privacy and Ethics in Eye Tracking
in Mobile, Wearable, and Immersive Systems
Bringing research, ethics, law, and industry together to shape responsible eye tracking in everyday life.
LocationGlasgow, United Kingdom
MUM 2026 conference1–4 December 2026
Workshop · Full day · In personTuesday, 1 December 2026
01 / The conversation
Beyond the lab.
Into everyday life.
Eye tracking is becoming part of our headsets, smart glasses, and mobile devices. So are the questions it raises.
Gaze can reveal attention, intent, cognitive load, identity, and health states—often without a person’s awareness. How do we protect privacy, support informed consent, and give people meaningful control?
Since 2021, PrEThics has brought these questions to ACM ETRA. Our sixth edition brings the conversation to MUM, connecting HCI, ubiquitous computing, eye tracking, AI, ethics, law, and industry.
02 / Topics of interest
Many perspectives.
One shared responsibility.
From technical safeguards to the social consequences of gaze-enabled systems.
People & interaction
Trust, transparency, and control; fairness, accessibility, and inclusive design; privacy-aware and human-centred interaction.
Ethics & governance
Ethical challenges in wearable and XR technologies; regulatory, legal, and societal implications of mobile and immersive systems.
Research & practice
Empirical studies, design frameworks, tools, and methodologies; real-world deployments, lessons learned, and case studies.
03 / A hands-on format
Show. Reflect. Specify.
See what’s possible.
Concise talks and live demonstrations explore what gaze sensing can do in mobile, wearable, and immersive devices.
Ask what’s at stake.
Focus groups discuss the ethical, legal, and societal implications of the demonstrations and participants’ position papers.
Make safeguards concrete.
Develop practical requirements together, then stress-test proposed protections in an adversarial exercise.
Our shared goal: a prioritised set of requirements and design recommendations, new interdisciplinary collaborations, and better practices for everyday gaze-enabled applications.
04 / The day together
Workshop programme
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:00–09:30 | Opening and introduction |
| 09:30–10:30 | Input I Lightning talks: eye tracking in mobile, wearable, and immersive systems |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–12:30 | SHOW Live demonstrations and “what your gaze reveals” hands-on session |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30–14:15 | Input II Legal aspects: talk and discussion |
| 14:15–15:00 | REFLECT Focus-group discussion of ethical implications |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30–16:45 | SPECIFY Requirements and practical implementations: adversarial exercise |
| 16:45–17:00 | Wrap-up and next steps |
05 / The organising team
Different disciplines.
Shared curiosity.
An interdisciplinary team connecting technology, people, and policy.
Social behaviour
Souptik Kumar Majumdar ↗
University of Stuttgart
Egocentric vision and gaze-based social behaviour modelling.
Cryptography & technical privacy
Mayar Elfares ↗
University of Stuttgart
Privacy-preserving eye tracking, security attacks, and defences.
Law & compliance
Murat Karaboga ↗
Fraunhofer ISI
Policy analysis and governance of information and communication technologies.
Digital media
Theresa Krampe ↗
University of Tübingen
Ethical and intersectional perspectives on digital media, culture, and technology.
Ethics
Céline Gressel ↗
University of Tübingen
Social, ethical, and legal perspectives in technology development.
Wearable eye trackers
Michael Raschke ↗
Blickshift GmbH
Visualisation-based eye-movement analysis and commercial research transfer.
Data protection
Aljoscha Schörnig ↗
University of Kassel
IT and data protection law, and constitutionally compatible technology design.
Fundamental rights
Christian Geminn ↗
University of Kassel
Fundamental rights, data protection, governance, and technology law.
Human–computer interaction
Andreas Bulling ↗
University of Stuttgart
Computational methods for sensing and modelling everyday behaviour and gaze.
06 / Join the conversation
Bring your perspective.
We welcome researchers and practitioners across HCI, ubiquitous computing, eye tracking, AI, ethics, law, and industry.
Registration and submission details will be announced here.