Publications
Authors marked with an asterisk (*) contributed equally.
Bumiller, F., Delgado Rodriguez, S., Mecke, L., Distler, V., & Alt, F. (2026). Too Many Zombies: Exploring Challenges and Motivations for (Not) Deleting Unused Online Accounts. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790497
Junger, M., Olber, P., Płocki, R., Luyten, H., Koning, L., Muniz, C. N., Bullee, J.-W., Wang, V., Botha, R., Howell, C. J., Distler, V., Chen, X., Pham, H. C., Aljohani, M., Richards, N. U., Muhly, F., Abhishta Abhishta, & Furnell, S. (2026). Relationships between cultural orientations, phishing victimization, and phishing recognition: A cross-cultural experiment. Computers & Security, 170, 105050. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2026.105050
Kujala, S., Distler, V., & Welsch, R. (2026). Application of psychological theories in european human–-computer interaction: A scoping review. European Psychologist, (0). https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000593
Schwaninger, I., Sergeeva, A., Anell, S., Nunes, F., Distler, V., Lallemand, C., & Guerreiro, T. (2026). Safeguarding trust, privacy and security in AI-supported healthcare. Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Interactive Health Conference, IH ’26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3786579.3799788
Weidhaas, R., Preuschen, A. von, & Distler, V. (2026, August). I didn’t know I would be this excited not to be scammed. Exploring emotional and behavioral responses during phishing attacks. Twentysecond Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026).
Chen, X., Distler, V., Gordon, C., Yao, Y., & Teuber, Z. (2025). Empowering Parents to Support Children’s Online Security and Privacy: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
Chen, X., Schöni, L., Zimmermann *, V., & Distler, V.*. (2025). Beyond Deterrence: A Systematic Review of the Role of Autonomous Motivation in Organizational Security Behavior Studies. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713122
Schwab, J., Nussbaum, A., Sergeeva, A., Alt, F., & Distler, V. (2025). What Makes Phishing Simulation Campaigns (Un)Acceptable? A Vignette Experiment. Proceedings 2025 Symposium on Usable Security (USEC). https://doi.org/10.14722/usec.2025.23010
Triantafyllopoulos, A., Spiesberger, A. A., Tsangko, I., Jing, X., Distler, V., Dietz, F., Alt, F., & Schuller, B. W. (2025). Vishing: Detecting social engineering in spoken communication — A first survey & urgent roadmap to address an emerging societal challenge. Computer Speech & Language, 94, 101802. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2025.101802
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. https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2024/presentation/chen
Chen, X., Sacre, 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. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Janeiro, J., Alves, S., Guerreiro, T., Alt, F., & Distler, V. (2024). Understanding Phishing Experiences of Screen Reader Users. IEEE Security & Privacy, 22(5), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2024.3430110
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. https://doi.org/10.1145/3688459.3688474
Murtezaj, D., Paneva, V., Distler, V., & Alt, F. (2024). Public Security User Interfaces: Supporting Spontaneous Engagement with IT Security. Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop, 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/3703465.3703470
Chen, X., Doublet, S., & Distler, V. (2024, November). Making Motivation Theories Accessible: Introducing Motivation Cards to Map Motivators for Security and Privacy Education. S&PEI Workshop of the Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024). https://spei2024.github.io
Alt, F., Hassib, M., & Distler, V. (2023). Human-centered Behavioral and Physiological Security. New Security Paradigms Workshop, 48–61. https://doi.org/10.1145/3633500.3633504
Bongard-Blanchy, K., Sterckx, J.-L., Rossi, A., Sergeeva, A., Koenig, V., Rivas, S., & Distler, V. (2023). Analysing the Influence of Loss-Gain Framing on Data Disclosure Behaviour: A Study on the Use Case of App Permission Requests. European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC).
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, 10, 100299. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2023.100299
Distler, V. (2023). The Influence of Context on Response to Spear-Phishing Attacks: An In-Situ Deception Study. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581170
Distler, V., Abdrabou, Y., Dietz, F., & Alt, F. (2023). Triggering Empathy out of Malicious Intent: The Role of Empathy in Social Engineering Attacks. Proceedings of the 2nd Empathy-Centric Design Workshop, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588967.3588969
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28643-8_3
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104925
Sergeeva, A., Bongard-Blanchy, K., Distler, V., & Koenig, V. (2023). The Perceived Influence of E-Shopping Cues on Customers’ Buying Decisions. Proceedings of the XI Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630970.3630980
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. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581163
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2242966
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. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00023
Distler, V., Gutfleisch, T., Lallemand, C., Lenzini, G., & 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, 5, 100161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2021.100161
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. EduCHI’22.
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.
Distler, V., Fassl, M., Habib, H., Krombholz, K., Lenzini, G., Lallemand, C., Cranor, L. F., & Koenig, V. (2021). A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Methods and Risk Representation in Usable Privacy and Security Research. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 28(6), 1–50. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469845
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, 106, 106227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106227
Distler, V., Lallemand, C., & Koenig, V. (2020). Making encryption feel secure: Investigating how descriptions of encryption impact perceived security. The 5th European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), 10.
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, 45–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442167.3442173
Distler, Lallemand, & Koenig. (2020). Making Encryption Feel Secure: Investigating how Descriptions of Encryption Impact Perceived Security. 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 220–229. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00037
Distler, V., Zollinger, M.-L., Lallemand, C., Roenne, P. B., Ryan, P. Y. A., & Koenig, V. (2019). Security - Visible, Yet Unseen? How displaying security mechanisms impacts user experience and perceived security. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13.
Distler, V., Lallemand, C., & Bellet, T. (2018). Acceptability and Acceptance of Autonomous Mobility on Demand: The Impact of an Immersive Experience. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174186