Verena Winterhalter

Forschungsinteressen

• User Privacy in Mixed Reality Environments

Akademischer Werdegang

• Media informatics and communication studies (Bachelors and Masters) at the LMU Munich
• Since 07/2024: PhD Student in the group of Prof. Dr. Florian Alt

Publikationen

2026
Download	Marvin Strauss, Jonas Keppel, Jan Günther, Verena Winterhalter, Donald Degraen, Viktorija Paneva, Uwe Gruenefeld, Jonas Auda, David Goedicke, Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegass Face-Swapped Privacy: Understanding Preferences for Video Obfuscation of Oneself in Mobile Contexts In MUM '26: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. November 8, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3861188.3861193 (bib)
Download	Shady Mansour, Verena Winterhalter, Florian Alt, Viktorija Paneva Are You Onboard? Exploring Experiential Privacy Onboarding in Virtual Reality In VRST '26: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. November 7, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3822517.3848675 (bib)
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Verena Winterhalter, Naga Sai Surya Vamsy Malladi, Evgeniia Maltseva, Marvin Strauss, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt Designing Privacy Interfaces for Informed Consent in Virtual Reality: Challenges and Design Implications In Proceedings of the Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '26). October 5, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
	Marvin Strauss, Björn-Rene Heinrichs, Alia Saad, Verena Winterhalter, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegass Evaluating Interfaces to Inform Bystanders About XR Data Collection: Findings from Online and In-Situ Studies In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 9, No. 5, Article MHCI037. September 23, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Verena Winterhalter, Sarah Prange, Anouk Moreno, Harel Berger, Florian Alt I don't know what I've all granted. Does it really matter? – Understanding Users' Awareness of Different Permission Types on Android In SOUPS'26: Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. August 26, 2026. USENIX, Hannover, Germany. (bib)
2025
Download	Shady Mansour, Verena Winterhalter, Florian Alt, Viktorija Paneva A Multi-Layered Privacy Permission Frameworkfor Extended Reality In NSPW '25: Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop. January 01, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Verena Winterhalter, Franziska Augustinowski, Florian Alt User Understanding of Privacy Permissions in Mobile Augmented Reality: Perceptions and Misconceptions In PACM HCI: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2025. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Marjan Käsemodel, Verena Winterhalter, Felix Heisel, Florian Alt, Bastian Pfleging BlueTOTP: Designing A Phishing-Resistant and User-Friendly Approach to Two-Factor Authentication In INTERACT '25: Proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. September 03, 2025. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. (bib)
Download	Verena Winterhalter, Anouk Moreno, Sarah Prange, Harel Berger, Florian Alt PermWatch: A Tool for In-Situ Research on Users' Awareness and Control of Android Permissions In SOUPS '25: Adjunct Proceedings of the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. June 05, 2025. USENIX Association, undefined. (bib)
Download	Verena Winterhalter, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Enhancing User Engagement with Game-Inspired Privacy Interfaces in Virtual Reality In SOUPS '25: Adjunct Proceedings of the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. June 05, 2025. USENIX Association, undefined. (bib)
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Verena Winterhalter, Naga Sai Surya Vamsy Malladi, Marvin Strauss, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt Usable Privacy in Virtual Worlds: Design Implications for Data Collection Awareness and Control Interfaces in Virtual Reality ArXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10915 [cs.HC]. May 13, 2025. (bib)
2024
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Marvin Strauss, Verena Winterhalter, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt Privacy in the Metaverse IEEE Pervasive Computing. December 09, 2024. (bib)
2023
Download	Maximiliane Windl, Verena Winterhalter, Albrecht Schmidt, Sven Mayer Understanding and Mitigating Technology-Facilitated Privacy Violations in the Physical World Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-04-23 (bib)
2020
Download	Sarah Theres Völkel, Ramona Schödel, Daniel Buschek, Clemens Stachl, Verena Winterhalter, Markus Bühner, Heinrich Hussmann Developing a Personality Model for Speech-based Conversational Agents Using the Psycholexical Approach Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)

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