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Katharina Barlage

Katharina Barlage

E-Mail katharina.barlage ät ifi.lmu.de
Phone +49-89 / 2180-75137
Address Katharina Barlage
LMU Munich
Media Informatics Group
Frauenlobstr. 7a
80337 Munich, Germany
Room 435 (4th floor)


Research Interests

  • Personalization of Privacy and Security Measures Using Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Application of Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Usable Systems


Academic Background

  • Bachelor (B.Sc.) International Media and Computing at HTW Berlin
  • Erasmus at University of Oslo (UiO)
  • Master (M.Sc.) Computer Science at HU Berlin
  • Since September 2025: PhD Student at LMU Munich

Teaching

  • Advanced Web Technologies WiSe25/26
  • Practical Usable Privacy and Security WiSe25/26

Publications

2026
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Katharina Barlage, Moritz Will, Dimitri Hein, Lukas Mecke, Philipp Thalhammer, Florian Alt
CyberFrame: AI-Supported Hybrid Comics for Cybersecurity Awareness
CHI EA '26, Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 13--17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain (bib)
2025
Katharina Barlage, Andrei Aleksandrov, Philipp Lämmel
Privacy-Preserving Parking Lot Surveillance Utilizing Homomorphic Encryption
2025 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). December 23, 2025. IEEE, Patras, Greece. (bib)


Theses (Bachelor/Master)

Open

NA BA/MA Physical AI Switch
MT/PT Between Pride and Privacy: Investigating Motivations Behind Sharenting
MA/BA/PA Abschlussarbeiten im Bereich Human-Centered Security and Privacy



In Progress

2025
Elisabeth Thalhammer bachelor thesis Exploring the Role of Personal Journals in Digital Legacy Curation
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MT/PT Gentle Steering: Designing Personalized Privacy Guardrails for LLMs
MT/PT Leveraging a Textbased Adventure Game to Explore Players' Willingness to Grant Permissions when Interacting with an LLM
BT/MT/PT Can We Trust AI to Teach Security? Quality Assurance for Animated AI-Generated Cybersecurity Learning Content
Timo Koethe master thesis Secure but Usable? Evaluating Homomorphic Encryption in Biometric Authentication Systems
Tea Barisic master thesis Designing and Evaluating Playful User Experiences for Cybersecurity Awareness: An Interactive Murder Mystery Approach



Accomplished

2025
Keke Le bachelor thesis Personalized LLM-Based Interventions for Parental Sharenting Behavior and Privacy Awareness
Moritz Will master thesis AI-supported hybrid comic films for cybersecurity education


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