Verena Distler

Assistant Professor at Aalto University, Finland | Human-centered security and privacy (#privacy #security #HCI #usablesecurity) | PhD @uni_lu_HCI
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2023-11-07

We are currently recruiting PhD candidates in human-computer interaction / usable security and privacy, located in Munich! #hci unibw.de/usable-security-and-p

2023-09-26

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Hi Oliver, thanks!

Yes, I think a Poisson model could be interesting (we do provide the data for further analysis).

Re: table 1: agreed.

2023-09-22

Open-ended questions revealed that interventions can cause distraction which in turn could potentially evoke negative emotions. The decision to cheat was influenced by the extent to which interventions conveyed that cheating is wrong and also by test-takers’ perception of getting caught if they cheated.

We derived recommendations for a fair and cheating-preventive unproctored online assessment for researchers and practitioners.

Read the full paper: vdistler.com/wp-content/upload

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2023-09-22

These interventions were: honor code reminder, warning message, and monitoring message.

The quantitative results indicated that, compared to a control condition, displaying a honor code reminder during an online test worked best in lowering the odds of cheating. None of the interventions affected user experience and test-taking self-efficacy significantly.

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Overall design of the experiment - (1) participants committed not to look for answers on the internet in an online consent form prior to the study, (2) whoever gave their consent took an online test of five quantitative aptitude questions, (3) anti-cheating interventions are displayed in the test interface according to the group assigned randomly, (4) Finally, they filled out questionnaire on UX, open-ended questions regarding their subjective opinions about the interventions, questionnaire on emotional experience followed by test-taking self-efficacy questionnaire.Three different privacy-non-invasive anti-cheating interventions: reminding honor code (left), warning message (middle), and monitoring message (right).
2023-09-22

Glad to announce a new paper in Computers & Education! This is work led by the great PhD student Suvadeep Mukherjee at University of Luxembourg, congratulations!

It is difficult to prevent cheating without invading test-takers’ privacy — especially in high-stakes online assessments, when the assessment is remote and unproctored. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N = 997) to investigate the effects of three privacy-non-invasive anti-cheating interventions on cheating prevention.
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Computers & Education journal homepage: The effects of privacy-non-invasive interventions on cheating prevention and user experience in unproctored online assessments: An empirical study Suvadeep Mukherjee , Bjorn Rohles , Verena Distler , Gabriele Lenzini, Vincent Koenig
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Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)sharoz@scicomm.xyz
2023-09-11

If you are submitting to #chi2024, please describe your experiment methods CLEARLY. Here is a template and some tips:

steveharoz.com/public/experime

1) Bullet points and diagrams are more clear than prose for describing variables and conditions.

A bulleted list describing independent variables
2023-04-20

My CHI2023 paper "The Influence of Context on Response to Spear-Phishing Attacks: an In-Situ Deception Study" is available online now! doi.org/10.1145/3544548.358117 (open access)

2023-01-16

Happy to share that our paper about persuasive attempts in commercial emails has been accepted for #CHI2023, led by the great @harmonicnumber! With the great co-authors Björn Rohles and Vincent Koenig.

2023-01-16

Excited to share that my first sole-authored paper "The Influence of Context on Response to Spear-Phishing Attacks: an In-Situ Deception Study" was accepted to #CHI2023!

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Alarith Uhdealarith@hci.social
2023-01-13

We have 3 open PhD positions (TVL 13, 100%, 3 years) at University of Siegen (Germany) to work with Prof. Marc Hassenzahl on well-being-promoting interactive technology. These positions specifically focus on the themes "relatedness over distance" and "autonomy-enhancing design". As a soon-to-be alumni I can highly recommend this! Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions (links below)! #job #jobs #academicjob #phdlife #academia

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