One Year "Usable Security and Privacy" Group

30 April 2019

Almost a year ago, starting 1st May 2018, Florian Alt and Ken Pfeuffer started building up the Usable Security and Privacy Group at the Bundeswehr University, Munich. Today, 12 researchers (3 post-docs, 6 PhD students, 3 student assistants and interns) work on topics at the intersetion of Human-Computer Interaction and IT security.

Some hightlights from the first year:

  • We hosted the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2018) at the GUC with Prof. Dr. Florian Alt being a General Co-Chair and Dr. Yomna Abdelrahman being the Local Arrangements Chair.
  • We organized the first UIST School at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam / Berlin on "Moving Interaction Closer to the Body".
  • We set up the BehaVR lab in which we investigate how people behave in security-critical environments and design novel security concepts.
  • We established a teaching module on "Usable Securit and Privacy" in the Cyber Security master program of the Bundeswehr University.
  • We published 29 papers, including an Honorable Mention Award at MobileHCI 2018

 

We are excited to be listed among the Top-10 European HCI Schools on csrankings.org: https://csrankings.org/#/index?chi&europe.

 

Aktuelles

Contributions to Chi 2024

Our group contributes this year 3 full papers and various late breaking works, workshop papers and demonstrations to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Contributions to CHI 2023

Our group contributes this year 6 full papers and various late breaking works, workshop papers and demonstrations to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Introducing the xReality Framework

Together with Philipp Rauschnabel, Reto Felix, Chris Hinsch and Hamza Shahab we published a framework on XR in the journal “Computers in Human Behavior”, which introduces a revised view on XR.

Internship Luis

During a one-week school internship, Luis was able to gain insights into the research of the Usable Security and Privacy group. He also developed a working software and hardware prototype.

AFCEA Exhibition 2022

The Usable Security and Privacy Group presents two interesting research projects at this year's AFCEA Exhibition in Bonn: HotFoot and PriKey

Google Faculty Award for PrEvoke

The Usable Security and Privacy group has won a Google Faculty Award for the PrEvoke project, which will launch in January 2022.

School Internship

The Usable Security and Privacy group had the opportunity to introduce a student intern to research in the field of human-machine interaction. During his one-week internship in October 2021, Lucas gained insights into the daily routine of the scientific staff and was also able to realize his own small projects.