Security Attacks in Remote Collaborative Mixed Reality

Topics: Human computer interaction (HCI), interaction paradigms, mixed/augmented reality, human and societal aspects of security and privacy

Abstract

Remote collaborative mixed reality introduces attacks that exploit three-dimensional interaction and invisible virtual geometry. This project implemented latency, click-redirection, object-occlusion, and spatial-occlusion attacks in a collaborative HoloLens 2 environment and studied how users recognized, interpreted, and responded to them. Participants were generally less likely to recognize immersive attacks that exploited MR-specific interaction mechanics than attacks resembling familiar desktop- security failures. The findings identify a gap in user awareness and motivate clearer system feedback, training, and mitigations for maintaining trust in remote immersive collaboration.

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@inproceedings{sajid2025juststop,
  title     = {``Just stop doing everything for now!'': Understanding Security Attacks in Remote Collaborative Mixed Reality},
  author    = {Sajid, Maha and Bukhari, Syed Ibrahim Mustafa Shah and Ji, Bo and David-John, Brendan},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  pages     = {623--633},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.1109/VR59515.2025.00085}
}