Since January 2021, I have been a Ph.D. student at the Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media group at LMU Munich, supervised by Albrecht Schmidt. My research focuses on usable privacy in intelligent environments.
In 2020, I finished my Master's degree in Media Informatics at the University of Regensburg, Germany with a thesis about
"Implementation and Assessment of Contextual Privacy Policies". Before that, in 2018, I completed a Bachelor's
degree in Media Informatics (major), and Information Science (minor), also at the University of Regensburg. During this
time I also worked as a mobile software developer in the industry.
Maximiliane Windl, Magdalena Schlegel, Sven Mayer.
Exploring Users' Mental Models and Privacy Concerns During Interconnected Interactions Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Issue 8 (MobileHCI'24)
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Maximiliane Windl, Jan Leusmann, Sebastian S. Feger, Albrecht Schmidt, Sven Mayer.
Privacy Communication Patterns for Domestic Robots IAPP Privacy Award Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS'24)
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Weiwei Jiang, Maximiliane Windl, Benjamin Tag, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Sven Mayer.
An Immersive and Interactive VR Dataset to Elicit Emotions IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG'24).
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Maximiliane Windl, Sebastian S. Feger.
Designing Interactive Privacy Labels for Advanced Smart Home Device Configuration Options Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'24)
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2023
Maximiliane Windl, Anna Scheidle, Ceenu George, Sven Mayer.
Investigating Security Indicators for Hyperlinking Within the Metaverse Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS'23)
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Sebastian S. Feger, Maximiliane Windl, Jesse Grootjen, Albrecht Schmidt.
ConnectivityControl: Providing Smart Home Users with Real Privacy Configuration Options End-User Development: 9th International Symposium (IS-EUD'23)
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Maximiliane Windl, Verena Winterhalter, Albrecht Schmidt, Sven Mayer.
Understanding and Mitigating Technology-Facilitated Privacy
Violations in the Physical World CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23)
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Maximiliane Windl, Albrecht Schmidt, Sebastian S. Feger.
Investigating Tangible Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms
for Future Smart Homes CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23)
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2022
Maximiliane Windl, Alexander Hiesing, Robin Welsch, Albrecht Schmidt, Sebastian S. Feger.
SaferHome: Interactive Physical and Digital Smart Home Dashboards for Communicating Privacy Assessments to Owners and Bystanders. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Issue 6 (ISS'22)
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Jamie Ullerich, Maximiliane Windl, Andreas Bulling, Sven Mayer.
ThumbPitch: Enriching Thumb Interaction on Mobile Touchscreens using Deep Learning. 33nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI'22)
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Maximiliane Windl, Sven Mayer.
The Skewed Privacy Concerns of Bystanders in Smart Environments. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Issue 6 (MobileHCI'22)
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Florian Bemmann, Maximiliane Windl, Jonas Erbe, Sven Mayer, Heinrich Hussmann.
The Influence of Transparency and Control on the Willingness of Data Sharing in Adaptive Mobile Apps Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Issue 6 (MobileHCI'22)
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Maximiliane Windl, Niels Henze, Albrecht Schmidt, Sebastian S. Feger.
Automating Contextual Privacy Policies: Design and Evaluation of a
Production Tool for Digital Consumer Privacy Awareness Honorable Mention CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22)
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Maximiliane Windl, Sebastian S. Feger, Lara Zijlstra, Albrecht Schmidt, Paweł W. Woźniak.
'It Is Not Always Discovery Time': Four Pragmatic Approaches in Designing AI Systems CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22)
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Maximiliane Windl, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Niels Henze, Valentin Schwind.
Privacy at a Glance: A Process to Learn Modular Privacy Icons During Web Browsing Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'22)
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2020
Anna-Marie Ortloff, Maximiliane Windl, Valentin Schwind, Niels Henze.
Implementation and In Situ Assessment of Contextual Privacy Policies Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'20)
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2019
Anna-Marie Ortloff, Maximiliane Windl, Lydia Güntner, Thomas Schmidt.
Towards a Graphical User Interface for Quantitative Analysis in Digital Musicology Mensch und Computer, workshop paper (MuC'19)
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Anna-Marie Ortloff, Lydia Güntner, Maximiliane Windl, Thomas Schmidt, Martin Kocur, Christian Wolff.
SentiBooks: Enhancing audiobooks via affective computing and smart light bulbs Proceedings of Mensch und Computer (MuC'19)
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2018
Anna-Marie Ortloff, Lydia Güntner, Maximiliane Windl, Denis Feth, Svenja Polst.
Evaluation kontextueller Datenschutzerklärungen Mensch und Computer, workshop paper (MuC'18)
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Projects
AI Museum Exhibit AMELIE
AMELIE is an exhibit we installed at the Deutsches Museum Munich. AMELIE teaches visitors the basics of machine learning in a fun and interactive way. Our goal is to convey the impact of data augmentation and how it is substantial to many machine learning models. Watch a video of the exhibit below.
Scientific Comitee:CHI'24 Late Breaking Work, Augmented Humans'24, CHI'23 Late Breaking Work, CHI'22 Assistant to Subcommitee Chairs (Interaction Beyond the Individual)
Multimedia Programming (SS 2023, SS 2024) Assistant
Practical Machine Learning (SS 2021, SS 2022) Assistant
Media Technology (SS 2021, SS 2022) Assistant
Introduction to Programming (WS 2021/22, WS 2022/23) Lecturer
Advanced Seminar Media Informatics (WS 2021/22) Assistant
Proseminar Media Informatics (WS 2022/23, SS 2023) Assistant
Advised Theses
2024, Master's thesis, Privacy of the Connected World of Tomorrow: Privacy-Preserving Micro Interactions for AR
2024, Bachelor's thesis, Navigating Complexity and Dynamics: Visualizing the Value of Information for End Users in Smart Homes
2024, Master's thesis, Opportune Moments for Security Tasks
2024, Master's thesis, Development of a Physical Smart Home Dashboard for Device Configuration and Privacy Awareness
2024, Master's thesis, Development and Evaluation of a Smart Home Privacy Hub
2024, Bachelor's thesis, Perceived Versus Actual Privacy – Do Privacy Projects Need a Placebo Condition?
2024, Bachelor's thesis, Investigating Opportune Moments for Robot Disruptions
2023, Bachelor's thesis, Visualization of Smart Home Device Data Patterns for Privacy Awareness
2023, Master's thesis, Privacy-Preserving Interconnected Interactions for Smart Devices
2023, Bachelor's thesis, A Qualitative Study on the Concerns of Smartphone Users Regarding Privacy and Data Protection
2022, Master's thesis, Security Indicators for Safe Transitions Between Applications in Virtual Reality
2022, Bachelor's thesis, Conveying Principles of Artificial Intelligence through Playful Interaction
2022, Master's thesis, Exploring Needs and Designs of Real World Privacy Policies
2022, Master's thesis, Interactive Tools that Surface Interaction Consequences in User Authentication
2022, Bachelor's thesis, PriVis: Investigating Visualizations to Enable Privacy Reflection for Bystanders in Smart Environments
2022, Master's thesis, Adaptive Closed Captions for Language Learning
2022, Bachelor's thesis, Mapping Smart Home Privacy Interactions and Negotiations between Bystanders and Device Owners
2022, Master's thesis, Text Summarization for Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning
2021, Master's thesis, Development and Evaluation of a Tangible IoT Privacy and Security Dashboard
2021, Master's thesis, Personalisation in Volunteer Opportunity Discovery: Design and Evaluation of Novel Interactive Digital Discovery Mechanisms in Volunteer Recruitment
Get in touch
If you're interested in my research or collaborations, please contact me at maximiliane.windl(at)ifi.lmu.de
