Research Field

• User experience of security and privacy technologies on smartphones
• Experience-based approaches for designing security and privacy mechanisms on smartphones
• Impact of salient privacy information on user decision making behavior
• User behavior modeling

Biography
Lydia studied Electrical engineering and Information Technology with a major in Communications engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and received her Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc. equivalent) at the end of 2009. After her graduation she joined the Mihailo Pupin Institute in Belgrade/Serbia as a scientific researcher in the area of information systems for emergency management and evacuation. Since the beginning of 2013 she is employed at the Quality and Usability Lab at TU Berlin where she is working towards a PhD in the field of usable and experience-based security and privacy on smartphones. Lydia appreciates working in interdisciplinary environments. She often uses approaches from disciplines such as user experience and positive psychology to investigate how users handle security and privacy on their smartphones and how future technologies that are based on such approaches could look like.

Projects:

Achieving the trust paradigm shift (ATTPS) [2]

SecNEED [3]

Teaching:

• Seminar "Biometric Identification and Verification" (WS 13/14, WS 14/15, WS 15/16)
• Study project: Security and Privacy on Smartphones from a user perspective/ Sicherheit und Privatsphäre auf Smartphones aus Nutzersicht (WS 14/15)
• Study project: Security and Psychological Needs during Smartphone Usage/ Sicherheit und psychologische Bedürfnisse bei der Smartphone-Nutzung (SoSe 15)

Supervised theses:

• Nutzerfreundliche Visualisierung für Android App-Berechtigungen (BA)
• Untersuchung eines grafischen Authentifizierungsverfahrens hinsichtlich hedonischer Qualität (BA)

Address:
Quality and Usability Lab
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
D-10587 Berlin, Germany

Phone:

+49 30 8353 54220