ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 20 Nov 2025 17:36 - 18:00 at Grand Hall 6 - VARSE - Second Session Chair(s): Shuqing Li

Immersive attacks are a novel class of security threats that emerge from the immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) interfaces. Unlike traditional cyber attacks that target users’ sensitive information, immersive attacks target users’ immersive experience: their visual perception and sense of direction. Despite their high damage potential, countermeasures for immersive attacks are still underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how one can implement immersive attacks using OpenXR, a unifying standard that enables running vendor-independent VR applications on various VR platforms. We explore strategies for detecting such attacks through the perspective of static code analysis, a popular technique for application security vetting. We discuss the requirements and challenges for static analyses aimed at detecting immersive attacks, highlighting in particular the lack of cross-language support in existing tools and the absence of domain-specific knowledge needed to recognize these attacks.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 20 Nov

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16:00 - 18:00
VARSE - Second SessionVARSE at Grand Hall 6
Chair(s): Shuqing Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong
16:00
24m
Research paper
A Test Automation Framework for User Interaction in Extended Reality Applications
VARSE
Ruizhen Gu University of Sheffield, José Miguel Rojas University of Sheffield
Pre-print
16:24
24m
Research paper
ARTRIP: Automatic AR Testing with Randomized Interaction Patterns
VARSE
Maria Rivera University of Texas at San Antonio, Lisette Isais University of Texas at San Antonio, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
16:48
24m
Research paper
NavAI: A Generalizable LLM Framework for Navigation Tasks in Virtual Reality Environments
VARSE
Xue Qin Villanova University, Matthew DiGiovanni Villanova University
17:12
24m
Research paper
A Conformance Checking System for Interaction Testing in Virtual Reality
VARSE
Vijay Aravynthan Software Engineering Research Center International Institute of Information Technology, Raghu Reddy IIIT Hyderabad
17:36
24m
Research paper
Toward Static Analysis of Immersive Attacks
VARSE
Kadiray Karakaya Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, Jonas Klauke Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Enes Yigitbas Paderborn University