Sarah Delgado Rodriguez M.Sc.

Sarah Delgado Rodriguez M.Sc.

Sarah Delgado Rodriguez completed both her bachelor and master degrees at the LMU Munich. Since 2019, she has been working as a student assistant in the Usable Security and Privacy Group of Prof. Florian Alt at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. After finishing her Master's degree, she started her PhD in Prof. Alt's group as part of the dtec.bw project MuQuaNet, where she investigates tangible privacy and security interfaces. Since 2025 she is also a member of the Media Informatics Group at the LMU Munich.

She is generally interested in research on  IoT, behavioral biometrics, fabrication, and tangible privacy and security.

 

Peer Reviewing

• CHI 2025
• CHI 2024
• TEI 2024
• MUM 2023
• CHI 2023
• CHI 2022
• IMWUT 2022

 

Organisational Activities

• DIS 2025 - Associate Chair
• TEI 2025 - Social Media and Publicity Chair
• Workshop Be-greifbare Interaktionen (Tangible Interactions) during Mensch und Computer 2024
• ISS 2024 - Publicity Chair
• DIS 2024 - Associate Chair
• Augmented Humans 2024 - PC Member
• MUM 2023 - PC Member for Posters Track
• Post-CHI Usable Security Summerschool 2023 - Organisational Assistant 
• Augmented Humans 2023 - Demo Chair
• Workshop Be-greifbare Interaktionen (Tangible Interactions) during Mensch und Computer 2023
• Augmented Humans 2022 - Demo Chair
• Workshop Be-greifbare Interaktionen (Tangible Interactions) during Mensch und Computer 2022

 

Publications

2024

	Priyasha Chatterjee Sarah Delgado Rodriguez and Karola Marky. Do You Need to Touch? Exploring Correlations between Personal Attributes and Preferences for Tangible Privacy Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '24. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Sarah Prange, Lukas Mecke and Florian Alt. Act2Auth – A Novel Authentication Concept based on Embedded Tangible Interaction at Desks. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. TEI '24. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
2023
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Anh Dong and Bumiller Phuong. Padlock, the Universal Security Symbol? – Exploring Symbols and Metaphors for Privacy and Security. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. MUM '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Vanessa Voigt, Raffael Wiethe, Chanakarn Sassmann, Moritz Will, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez and Florian Alt. Safe Call: A Tangible Smartphone Interface That Supports Safe and Easy PhoneCalls and Contacts Management for Older People. In Proceedings of the 22st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. MUM '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä and Florian Alt. Challenges in Virtual Reality Studies: Ethics and Internal and External Validity. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2023. AHs '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Lukas Mecke, Ismael Prieto Romero, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez and Florian Alt. Exploring the Use of Electromagnets to Influence Key Targeting on Physical Keyboards. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä and Florian Alt. Challenges in Virtual Reality Studies: Ethics and Internal and External Validity. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2023. AHs '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
2022
	Sarah Prange, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Timo Döding and Florian Alt. "Where did you first meet the owner?” – Exploring Usable Authentication for Smart Home Visitors. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA ’22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex] [Video]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Sarah Prange, Pascal Knierim, Karola Marky and Florian Alt. Experiencing Tangible Privacy Control for Smart Homes with PriKey. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. MUM '22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Sarah Prange, Christina Vergara Ossenberg, Markus Henkel, Florian Alt and Karola Marky. PriKey – Investigating Tangible Privacy Control for Smart Home Inhabitants and Visitors . In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction:. NordiCHI '22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Stefan Schneegass, Alia Saad, Roman Heger, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Romina Poguntke and Florian Alt. An Investigation of Shoulder Surfing Attacks on Touch-Based Unlock Events. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 6, [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Lukas Mecke and Florian Alt. SenseHandle: Investigating Human-Door Interaction Behaviour for Authentication in the Physical World. In Adjunct Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. SOUPS '22. USENIX Association, [Download Bibtex]
2021
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Sarah Prange and Florian Alt. Take Your Security and Privacy Into Your Own Hands! Why Security and Privacy Assistants Should be Tangible. In Mensch und Computer 2021 - Workshopband. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bonn. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Sarah Prange, Lukas Mecke and Florian Alt. ActPad – A Smart Desk Platform to Enable User Interaction with IoT Devices. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHIEA'21. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä, Sarah Prange, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Robin Piening, Yumeng Zhou, Kay Köhle, Ken Pfeuffer, Yomna Abdelrahman, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt and Florian Alt. Remote VR Studies – A Framework for Running Virtual Reality Studies Remotely Via Participant-Owned HMDs. [Download Bibtex]
2020
	Ken Pfeuffer, Lukas Mecke, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Mariam Hassib, Hannah Maier and Florian Alt. Empirical Evaluation of Gaze-Enhanced Menus in Virtual Reality. In 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. VRST '20. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Alia Saad, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Roman Heger, Florian Alt and Stefan Schneegass. Understanding User-Centered Attacks In-The-Wild. In Proceedings of the 1st CHI Workshop on Authentication Beyond Desktops and Smartphones. WABDS'20. [Download Bibtex]
2019
	Lukas Mecke, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Daniel Buschek, Sarah Prange and Florian Alt. Communicating Device Confidence Level and Upcoming Re-Authentications in Continuous Authentication Systems on Mobile Devices. In Fifteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2019). USENIX Association, Santa Clara, CA. [Download Bibtex] [Video]