Verena Winterhalter

Research Interests

• User Privacy in Mixed Reality Environments

Academic Background

• 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

Publications

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)
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)