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Habilitation Theses

• Marc-Andre Kaufhold
  Usable Technologies for Cyber Situational Awareness
  TU Darmstadt (Germany), Date of Submission: 10.04.2026
• Gerold Hölzl
  Embedded Recognition Architectures
  University of Passau (Germany), Date of Submission: 01.12.2024

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Doctoral Theses

• Dennis Stanke
  Interacting with Private and Public Wearable Displays
  University of Hannover, Date of Submission: 1.4.2026
• Florian Lehmann
  Functional Design of LLM-based Human-AI Interaction
  University of Bayreuth, Date of Submission: 1.2.2026
• Jonathan Liebers
  Behavioral Biometrics in Extended Reality: Implicit User Authentication Through Artificial Intelligence
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Date of Submission: 10.08.2025
• Alia Saad
  Scaling Biometrics for the Privacy of Ubiquitous Technologies
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Date of Submission: 27.02.2025
• Ambika Shahu
  Empowering Interactions: Integrating Self-Determination Theory into Companion Technology Design
  TU Vienna (Austria), Date of Submission: 14.12.2024
• Karl Seidenfad
  Collaborative Blockchain-based Information Systems on the Network Edge - Designs to Tackle Collective Problems
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of Submission: 30.01.2024
• Mehrdad Bahrini
  An HCI Approach to Privacy and Security in Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications
  University of Bremen (Germany), Date of Submission: 05.11.2024
• Julius von Willich
  Mission-Critical Interaction for Large Data Spaces Leveraging Extended Reality
  TU Darmstadt (Germany), Date of Submission: 16.12.2024
• Eric Klieme
  Securing Cyber and Physical Assets: Enhancing the Behavioral Authentication Landscape
  HPI Potsdam (Germany), Date of Submission: 05.04.2024
• Tobias Drey
  Towards Mixed Reality in Education: Overcoming Challenges of Teaching, Learning, and Authoring
  University of Ulm (Germany), Date of Submission: 22.09.2023
• Sven Fuchs
  Dynamische Adaptierung der Mensch-Maschine Interaktion auf der Basis mentaler Zustände
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of Submission: 01.10.2022
• Marius Hoggenmüller
  Urban Robotic Interfaces: Designing for Encounters with Non-Humanoid Robots in Cities
  University of Sydney (Australia), Date of Submission: 08.04.2022
• Verena Distler
  The Experience of Security in Human-Computer Interactions: Understanding Security Perceptions Through the Concept of User Experience
  University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg), Date of Submission: 21.09.2021
• Gerhard Schwarz
  Vernetztes Informationsmanagement als Führungskultur im „Virtuellen IT-gestützten Informationsraum“
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of Submission: 02.08.2021
• Tomasz Kosinski
  Privacy expectations and challenges of smart home ecosystems
  Chalmers University (Gothenburg, Sweden), Date of Submission: 09.06.2021
• Thomas Kundinger
  Driver Drowsiness Detection Systems: Potential of Smart Wearable Devices to Improve Vehicle Safety
  Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz (Austria), Date of Submission: 01.06.2021
• Thomas Oppenländer
  Crowdsourcing Creative Work
  University of Oulu (Finland), Date of Submission: 31.03.2021
• Diogo Marques
  Understanding Social Insider Intrusions to Personal Computing Devices
  University of Lisbon (Portugal), Date of Submission: 01.03.2021
• Stefan Lippert
  Nutzen aus der Perspektive von Awareness bei Informationsstrahlern als zusätzliche sozio-technische Systeme in organisationalen Gruppen
  Bundeswehr University (Germany), Date of submission: 02.05.2020
• Joshua Newn
  Gaze-Based Intention Recognition for Human-Agent Collaboration: Towards Nonverbal Communication in Human-AI Interaction
  University of Melbourne (Australia), Date of submission: 01.03.2020
• Zhanna Sarsenbayeva
  Quantifying the Effects of Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities on Mobile Interaction
  University of Melbourne (Australia), Date of submission: 29.02.2020
• Le Ngu Nguyen
  Security from Implicit Information
  Aalto University (Finland), Date of submission: 21.02.2020
• Callum Parker
  Augmenting Space: Design approaches for making public interactive displays relevant in hyperconnected societies.
  University of Sydney (Australia), Date of submission: 01.06.2018
• Niels Wouters
  Contextualising Media Architecture - Design Approaches to Support Social and Architectural Relevance
  KU Leuven (Belgium), Date of submission: 06.09.2016
• Jorge Cardoso
  An Interaction Abstraction Toolkit for Public Display Applications
  University of Minho (Portugal), Date of submission: 01.08.2013

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Master Thesis

• Christian Hermes
  Datenvisualisierung f¨ur Endnutzer zur Steigerung der Sicherheit im Identitätsmanagement
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 01.07.2024
• Florian Wutz
  Social Engineering im Metaverse - Applikation veralteter Methoden auf moderne Interaktionsebenen
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 01.07.2024
• Joao Janeiro
  A Big Phish is (not) in Sight: Phishing Prevention and Response for Scren Reader Users
  University of Lisbon, Date of submission: 01.04.2024
• Marian Käsemodel
  Verbesserung der Benutzbarkeit und Sicherheit gegen Man-In-The-Middle-Phishing von Time-based One-time Passwords
  Technische Universität Bergakademia Freiberg, Date of submission: 27.02.2024
• Jannik Koch
  Analyse der Nutzerawareness bezüglich Social Engineering Angriffen
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 30.06.2023
• Lukas Nachtigall
  Spielerische Schulung zum Thema Social Engineering
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 29.06.2023
• Jan Biermann
  Designstudie zur kollaborativen Emissionsberichterstattung mittels Blockchain und Industrial Edge
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 31.01.2023
• Katharina Reiter
  Investigating Gaze And Hand Controlled Menu Interfaces in Virtual Reality
  Paris-Lodron University Salzburg (Austria), Date of submission: 06.02.2022
• Thomas Wimmer
  Eye-Tracking als Einflussfaktor bei der Relevanzbewertung von Dokumenten
  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), Date of submission: 28.07.2021
• Florian Mathis
  AuthCube: Multi-PIN Pad Cube for Usable and Secure Multimodal Authentication in Virtual Reality
  University of Glasgow (UK), Date of submission: 30.09.2019
• Michael Wirth
  SycleSentry: Design and Evaluation of an On-Bicycle Assistance System for Hazard Avoidance
  Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Date of submission: 01.06.2018
• Julia Vehns
  Immsersive Autonomous Driving Simulator: Using Real-World Videos to Explore Human Factors in Automated Cars
  Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Date of submission: 02.05.2018
• Matthias Nefzger
  Design and Development of a Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Research Platform for Real-World Driving Studies
  Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Date of submission: 19.02.2017
• Andreas Bungert
  Entwicklung eines GPS-basierten Tracking-Toolkits für mobile Systeme
  Universität Duisburg-Essen, Date of submission: 18.01.2017
• Ramy AboulNaga
  Indoor Localization using Cluster Analysis
  German University of Cairo (Egypt), Date of Submission: 15.01.2017
• Jonathan Wong
  Gesture based interactions for augmented virtual mirrors
  University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Date of Submission: 2015
• Philipp Panhey
  Effekte von Interaktionstechniken auf die Kognition im Kontext von großen Displays
  University of Bremen (Germany), Date of submission: 19.03.2015
• Patrick Proppe
  Exploring the potential of ambient interface design in the context of in-car safety interventions
  Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Date of submission: 16.04.2016

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Bachelor Thesis

• Christos Labroussis
  The Effectivness of Large Language Models in Spear Phishing Email Generation
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Date of Submission: 01.07.2024
• Joao Janeiro
  A Big Phish Is (Not) In Sight: Phishing Prevention and Response for Screen Reader Users
  University of Lisbon, Date of Submission: 01.10.2023
• Henning Sude
  Understanding the User’s Eye-Gaze on Areas of Interest in Spear Phishing Emails
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Date of Submission: 20.09.2023
• Hatem Abdelmoteleb
  Visualizing front-facing camera usage in mobile interaction: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
  German University of Cairo (Egypt), Date of Submission: 26.08.2018
• Mariam Sameh Kamel Raouf Kamel
  Virtual Companions as a Familiar Interface between Users and Applications inside VR
  German University of Cairo (Egypt), Date of Submission: 30.08.2018

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Thesis Award Committees

• Verena Distler
  University of Luxembourg
• Debargha Dey
  TU Eindhoven