Publications

Depending on my co-authors’ disciplines, I publish both in journals and conferences. Much of my research is published in conference proceedings (e.g., ACM CHI), as conferences are the top-tier academic publishing venues for computer scientists in HCI. I also publish in top-tier journals (e.g., Computers in Human Behavior, ACM ToCHI). All journal publications below are publications that have not appeared in another peer-reviewed venue.

Full list of publications on Google Scholar.

Mukherjee, S., Distler, V., Lenzini, G., & Cardoso-Leite, P. (2024). Balancing The Perception of Cheating Detection, Privacy and Fairness: A Mixed-Methods Study of Visual Data Obfuscation in Remote Proctoring. Proceedings of the 2024 European Symposium on Usable Security, 337–353.
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Janeiro, J., Sérgio, A., Guerreiro, T., Alt, F., Distler, V. (2024). Understanding Phishing Experiences of Screen Reader Users. IEEE Security & Privacy (IEEE S & P)
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Chen, X., Doublet, S., Sergeeva, A., Lenzini, G., Koenig, V., & Distler, V. (2024). What Motivates and Discourages Employees in Phishing Interventions: An Exploration of Expectancy-Value Theory. Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024), 487–506.
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Chen, X., Doublet, S. & Distler, V. (2024). Making Motivation Theories Accessible: Introducing Motivation Cards to Map Motivators for Security and Privacy Education. Workshop on Creating Engaging Security and Privacy Educational Interfaces for Educators and Families (S&PEI) at SOUPS 2024.
PDF of the article | Supplemental material (OSF) | Bibtex

Chen, X., Sacré, M., Lenzini, G., Greiff, S., Sergeeva, A* & Distler, V.*. (2024). The Effects of Group Discussion and Role-playing Training on Self-efficacy, Support-seeking, and Reporting Phishing Emails: Evidence from a Mixed-design Experiment. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2024).
PDF of the article | Pre-registration | Dataset and analysis syntax available in supplemental material | Bibtex
*Both authors have contributed equally to this research.

Tuncer, R., Sergeeva, A., Bongard-Blanchy, K., Distler, V., Doublet, S., & Koenig, V. (2023). Running out of Time(rs): Effects of Scarcity Cues on Perceived Task Load, Perceived Benevolence and User Experience on E-Commerce Sites. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–19.
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Mukherjee, S., Rohles, B., Distler, V., Lenzini, G., & Koenig, V. (2023). The Effects of Privacy-Non-Invasive Interventions on Cheating Prevention and User Experience in Unproctored Online Assessments: An Empirical Study. Computers & Education, 207, 104925.
PDF of the article | Dataset available as supplemental material | Summary on Mastodon | Bibtex

Distler, V. (2023) The Influence of Context on Response to Spear-Phishing Attacks: an In-Situ Deception Study. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2023).
PDF of the article | Full protocol, codebook in appendices of PDF | Video presentation CHI2023

Sergeeva, A., Rohles, B., Distler, V., Koenig, V. (2023) “We Need a Big Revolution in Email Advertising”: Users’ Perception of Persuasion in Permission-based Advertising Emails. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2023).
PDF of the article | Full protocol, codebook in appendices of PDF | Video presentation CHI2023

Distler, V., Abdrabou, Y., Dietz, F., Alt, F. (2023) Triggering Empathy out of Malicious Intent: The Role of Empathy in Social Engineering Attacks. CHI2023 Workshop EmpathiCH: Unravelling Empathy-Centric Design.
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Distler, V., Fassl, M., Habib, H., Krombholz, K., Lenzini, G., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., & Cranor, L. F. (2023). Empirical Research Methods in Usable Privacy and Security. In N. Gerber, A. Stöver, & K. Marky (Eds.), Human Factors in Privacy Research (pp. 29–53). Springer International Publishing.
PDF of the book chapter

Chen, X., Hedman, A., Distler, V., & Koenig, V. (2023). Do persuasive designs make smartphones more addictive? – A mixed-methods study on Chinese university students. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 100299.
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Alt, F., Hassib, M., & Distler, V. (2023). Human-centered Behavioral and Physiological Security. New Security Paradigms Workshop, 48–61.
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Sergeeva, A., Bongard-Blanchy, K., Distler, V., and Koenig, V. (2023) The Perceived Influence of E-Shopping Cues on Customers’ Buying Decisions. Proceedings of the Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CLIHC)
🏆 Honorable Mention Award

Rohles, B., Doublet, S., Bongard-Blanchy, K., Distler, V., Fourrier, V., Sergeeva, A., Koenig, V. (2022) “Do we need an entire course about it?”: Evaluating Two Years of Teaching HCI in Computer Science. Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI’22).
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Bongard-Blanchy, K., Sterckx, J.-L., Rossi, A., Distler, V., Rivas, S., & Koenig, V. (2022). An (Un)Necessary Evil—Users’ (Un)Certainty about Smartphone App Permissions and Implications for Privacy Engineering. 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 01–08.
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Distler, V., Gutfleisch, T., Lallemand, C., Lenzini, G., and Koenig, V. (2022) Complex, but in a good way? How to Represent Encryption to Non-Experts through Text and Visuals — Evidence from Expert Co-Creation and a Vignette Experiment. Computers in Human Behavior Reports.
PDF of the article | Supplemental material and replication files

Distler, V. (2021). The Experience of Security in Human-Computer Interactions: Understanding Security Perceptions Through the Concept of User Experience [PhD Thesis]. University of Luxembourg.
🏆 Excellent PhD Thesis Award (Doctoral Program in Psychology at the University of Luxembourg).
Short video presentation of a selection of research completed during my PhD

Distler, V., Fassl, M., Habib, H., Krombholz, K., Lenzini, G., Lallemand, C., Cranor, L., and Koenig, V. (2021) A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Methods and Risk Representation in Usable Privacy and Security Research. Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction.
PDF of the article | Supplemental material and replication files | Video of presentation at CHI 2022

Distler, V., Lenzini, G., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., (2020) The Framework of Security-Enhancing Friction: How UX Can Help Users Behave More Securely. New Security Paradigms Workshop 2020 (NSPW 2020)
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Distler, V., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., (2020) Making Encryption Feel Secure: Investigating how Descriptions of Encryption Impact Perceived Security. EuroUSEC, The 5th European Workshop on Usable Security
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Distler, V., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., (2020) How Acceptable Is This? How User Experience Factors Can Broaden our Understanding of the Acceptance of Privacy Trade- Offs. Computers in Human Behavior.
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Distler, V., Zollinger, M.-L., Lallemand, C., Roenne, P., Ryan, P. Y. A., Koenig, V., (2019) Security – Visible, Yet Unseen? How Displaying Security Mechanisms Impacts User Experience and Perceived Security. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2019).
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Zollinger, M. L., Distler, V., Roenne, P., Ryan, P., Lallemand, C., & Koenig, V. (2019). User Experience Design for E-Voting: How mental models align with security mechanisms. Electronic Voting.

Distler, V., Lallemand, C., Bellet, T., (2018) Acceptability and Acceptance of Autonomous Mobility on Demand: the Impact of an Immersive Experience. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2018).
🏆 1st Prize “Prix du mémoire digital”
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Distler, V., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., (2018) A UX Approach to Privacy and Security: the Impact of User, Contextual and System-Related Factors. Extended Abstract Presented at the Workshop on Exploring Individual Differences in Privacy (CHI 2018).

Distler, V., Lallemand, C., Koenig, V., (2018) Understanding human need fulfilment to support the design of secure experiences. Doctoral Consortium Paper at the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – NordiCHI ’18 (Oslo, Norway, 2018)