Hi,

I am Maximiliane Windl.

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 understanding and mitigating privacy concerns in ubiquitous computing systems.

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.

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Publications

2023

Maximiliane Windl, Anna Scheidle, Ceenu George, Sven Mayer.
Investigating Security Indicators for Hyperlinking Within the Metaverse
Ninth 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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Academic Service

Organizing Comitee: CHI '24 (SV Chair), CHI '23 (Local SV Chair), MUM '23 (Web Chair), MuC '22 (Social Media Chair), Nec '21 (Conftool Chair)
Scientific Comitee: CHI '23 Late Breaking Work, CHI '22 Assistant to Subcommitee Chair
Reviewing: MuC '23, CHI '23, CHI PLAY '22, MuC '22, CHI '22, CSCW '22, MuC '21, AHs '21
Student Volunteer: CHI '22 (Day Captain), AHs '22, CHI '21, ISS '21

Teaching

Practical Course Tangible Privacy (SS 2023)
Lecturer
Multimedia Programming (SS 2023)
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

2022, Master thesis, Anna Scheidle, Security Indicators for Safe Transitions Between Applications in Virtual Reality
2022, Bachelor thesis, Anna Papanakli, Conveying Principles of Artificial Intelligence through Playful Interaction
2022, Master thesis, Verena Winterhalter, Exploring Needs and Designs of Real World Privacy Policies
2022, Master thesis, Sybil Bast, Interactive Tools that Surface Interaction Consequences in User Authentication
2022, Bachelor thesis, Johanna Walker, PriVis: Investigating Visualizations to Enable Privacy Reflection for Bystanders in Smart Environments
2022 Master thesis, Henrike Weingärtner, Adaptive Closed Captions for Language Learning
2022, Bachelor thesis, Thomas Killer, Mapping Smart Home Privacy Interactions and Negotiations between Bystanders and Device Owners
2022, Master thesis, Adrian Westermeier, Text Summarization for Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning
2021, Master thesis, Alexander Hiesinger, Development and Evaluation of a Tangible IoT Privacy and Security Dashboard
2021, Master thesis, Anke Pellhammer, 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