Dr. Viktorija Paneva

Research Interests

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Virtual/Mixed Reality
• Usable Security and Privacy
• Optimal Control of User Interfaces

Teaching

• Summer term 2026: Practical Course Usable Security
• Winter term 2025/2026: Human-Centered Security
• Summer term 2025: Practical Course Usable Security, User Experience 2
• Winter term 2024/2025: Human-Centered Security

Publications

2026
Download	Viktorija Paneva Embodied Privacy Consent as a Design Probe for Rethinking Privacy Decisions In CHI EA '26: Proceedings of the CHI 2026 Workshop "Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI". April 14, 2026. (bib)
Download	Vincent Freiberger, Moritz Dresch, Florian Alt, Arthur Fleig, Viktorija Paneva Who Explains Privacy Policies to Me? Embodied and Textual LLM-Powered Privacy Assistants in Virtual Reality In CHI EA '26: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 13, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Doruntina Murtezaj, Xuanyu Zhou, Florian Bemmann, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Catch the Phish: A Gamified Public Display to Encourage Anti-Phishing Behaviors In PerDis '26: Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. March 16, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Doruntina Murtezaj, Timo Koethe, Florian Bemmann, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Interactive Public Displays for Everyday Security: The Case of Software Updates In PerDis '26: Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. March 16, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (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	Doruntina Murtezaj, Jovana Dinic, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Roby on a Mission: Promoting Awareness and Adoption of Password Managers Through Public Security User Interfaces In MUM '25: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. December 25, 2025. 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	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	Doruntina Murtezaj, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt AI-Augmented Public Security Interfaces: AdvancingCybersecurity Awareness through Adaptive Learning Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Workshop on Augmented Educators and AI: Shaping the Future of Human-AI Collaboration in Learning. May 01, 2025. (bib)
Download	Doruntina Murtezaj, Leonard Johannes Rössert, Yomna Abdelrahman, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Small Talk, Big Impact: The Role of Everyday Conversations in Cybersecurity Practices In CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 14, 2026. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Doruntina Murtezaj, Viktorija Paneva, Verena Distler, Florian Alt Public Security User Interfaces: Supporting Spontaneous Engagement with IT Security In NSPW '24: Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop. January 01, 2025. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
2024
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Marvin Strauss, Verena Winterhalter, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt Privacy in the Metaverse IEEE Pervasive Computing. December 09, 2024. (bib)
Download	Marvin Strauss, Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegass Designing and Evaluating Scalable Privacy Awareness and Control User In CHI EA '24: Proceedings of the CHI 2024 Workshop "Shaping The Future: Developing Principles for Policy Recommendations for Responsible Innovation in Virtual Worlds". April 19, 2024. (bib)
Download	Viktorija Paneva, Florian Alt Exploring Vulnerabilities in Remote VR User Studies In CHI EA '24: Proceedings of the CHI 2024 Workshop "Shaping The Future: Developing Principles for Policy Recommendations for Responsible Innovation in Virtual Worlds". April 19, 2024. (bib)