Our former student Melina Kleber is nominated for the finale of the CAST IT Security Award 2025 for outstanding thesis in the field of IT security and privacy. She will present her master thesis with the title “Investigating public attitudes towards data collection and use in Virtual Reality” in front of a jury in Darmstadt at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) on December 4. The results of her thesis were presented…
In October and November, Emiram visited the SECUSO group at KIT, led by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, in Karlsruhe as a guest researcher. She conducted a usability study on usable authentication in virtual reality as part of an exciting collaborative project between both research groups.
Thanks for having her!
The paper by Emiram, Melina and Patricia about data sharing acceptability in Virtual Reality got accepted at this year's USENIX Security conference in Seattle!
The paper by Patricia and Peter Mayer (KIT/SDU) on the usability of password managers for novice users, based on a longitudinal study, has been accepted at SOUPS 2025!
Emiram and Patricia have been awarded the prestigious "Emilio Aced" research award by the Spanish data protection authority AEPD for their work on Neuroprivacy.
Emiram presented a work-in-progress about perceptions and acceptability of data sharing in Virtual Reality at the 6th symposium on Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI) in New Brunswick, NJ.
The HITS group took part at this year's Girls' Day on 25.04.2024 and welcomed 17 female students from different schools with a fun LEGO4SCRUM workshop and an exciting speed dating round!
Yixin Zou from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum gave an invited talk about inclusive Privacy and Security as part of our lecture "Privacy and Technology".
Our recent paper about Markus Röse's master thesis, presenting a brainwave-based authentication system for the real world got accepted at EuroUSEC '23. Emiram presented the work at the conference in Copenhagen last week.
If you want to learn more about what is usable security, our research on improving user authentication, and the future of Brain Computer Interfaces and neuroprivacy, listen to Patricia's conversation with Marvin Beckmann in "All Day Research".
Patricia attended this year's PETS Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland and gave an exciting talk about her recent publication in cooperation with KASTEL Security Research Labs from KIT.
