Extending knowledge by identifying and investigating valuable research questions and problems is a core function of research. Research publications often suggest avenues for future work to extend and build upon their results. Considering these suggestions can contribute to developing research ideas that build upon previous work and produce results that tie into existing knowledge. Usable security and privacy researchers commonly add future work statements to their publications. However, our community lacks an in-depth understanding of their prevalence, quality, and impact on future research. Our work aims to address this gap in the research literature. We reviewed all 27 papers from the 2019 SOUPS proceedings and analyzed their future work statements. Additionally, we analyzed 978 publications that cite any paper from SOUPS 2019 proceedings to assess their future work statements' impact. We find that most papers from the SOUPS 2019 proceedings include future work statements. However, they are often unspecific or ambiguous, and not always easy to find. Therefore, the citing publications often matched the future work statements' content thematically, but rarely explicitly acknowledged them, indicating a limited impact. We conclude with recommendations for the usable security and privacy community to improve the utility of future work statements by making them more tangible and actionable, and avenues for future work.

翻译：通过识别和研究有价值的研究问题来拓展知识是科研的核心功能。研究出版物常会提出未来工作的建议方向，以延伸和构建其成果。考虑这些建议有助于形成基于前人工作的研究思路，并产生与现有知识体系相衔接的成果。可用安全与隐私领域的研究者通常在出版物中加入未来工作陈述。然而，学界对其普遍性、质量及对未来研究的影响尚缺乏深入理解。本研究旨在填补这一文献空白。我们审阅了2019年SOUPS会议全部27篇论文并分析了其中的未来工作陈述。此外，我们分析了引用2019年SOUPS会议任何论文的978篇出版物，以评估这些未来工作陈述的实际影响。研究发现：2019年SOUPS会议的大多数论文都包含未来工作陈述，但这些陈述往往不够具体或存在歧义，且不易定位。因此，引用文献虽常在主题上与未来工作陈述内容相符，却极少明确提及这些陈述，表明其实际影响有限。最后，我们为可用安全与隐私学界提出改进建议：通过增强未来工作陈述的具体性和可操作性来提升其效用，并指出了未来可能的研究方向。