Media
Talk at Swiss Cyber Storm: Better Together?
28 October 2025
Verena Zimmermann's talk "Better Together? - On the resilience of human-technology teams" is available on the Swiss Cyber Storm Youtube Channel.
Link to the video: external page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgL2vriVg2M&list=PLpSWQuopCAzKFmHgWvDhUbGFB1nMPF4Dh&index=18
Noé Zufferey was consulted by the Swiss newspaper "Le Temps"
01 October 2025
Noé Zufferey was consulted by the Swiss newspaper "Le Temps" for an article and a short video about the European law proposal known as “Chat Control”. He highlights the privacy risks associated with such a regulation, which do not comply with fundamental human rights to privacy. As a reminder, a backdoor for the police is also a backdoor for criminals.
Link to the article: external page https://www.letemps.ch/videos/little-sister/en-video-chat-control-pourquoi-l-ue-veut-lire-tous-vos-messages-prives
Interview of the TIRIgogy podcast series with Adrienn Toth
15 September 2025
Our PhD student, Adrienn Toth, was interviewed by Nurun Nahar, professor and host of the TIRIgogy podcast series. They have talked about the educational benefits of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in university education and the current barriers of widespread adoption. Adrienn introduced her project, which aims to address these barriers by engaging students in the design process.
Link to the podcast episode: external page https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bUGCAWnLD7BdGjs24PS5U
Security Awareness Insider Podcast
28 May 2025
Verena Zimmermann and Nico Ebert have been interviewed for the May
episode of the Security Awareness Insider Podcast. Together with Katja
Dörlemann from Switch and Marcus Beyer from Swisscom they discussed what Security can learn from Safety (and the other way round) .
Link to podcast episode: https://www.securityawarenessinsider.ch/
Swiss Security Awareness Day
15 November 2024
Verena Zimmermann and Nico Ebert gave a talk at the Swiss Security Awareness Day hosted by Switch that refers to the findings of a joint article external page "Learning from safety science: A way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations". The video is available from the external page Switch MediaSpace.
The SPG group in the ETH news
13 November 2024
The article "external page Authenticate As You Go: From Exploring Smart Home Authentication with Daily Objects to Authenticating with Primary Tasks" by Zimmermann et al. that published in the ACM TOCHI journal, the flagship journal for Human-Computer Interaction research, is featured in the ETH news article "Everyday routines as the key to logging in".
RTS episode "Montres connectées et sécurité"
28 August 2024
RTS Radio Broadcast with Noé Zufferey: In the radio episode "Montres connectées et sécurité" Noé spoke about his research and the potential for inferring one's personality from their smartwatch data such as stepcount. If you are ionterested to learn more, check out the external page episode (in French).
SRF interview in "10 vor 10"
26 June 2024
In the report external page "Welche Daten grosse Schweizer Webseiten sammeln" Verena Zimmermann explains what can happen to users that click "Accept" on a cookie banner.
Swiss Security Awareness Day 2023
09 November 2023
Verena Zimmermann had the chance to give a talk about human-centered security at the Swiss Security Awareness Day 2023 in Berne that has been organised by SWITCH. Take a look at the external page video.
Femtec.Alumnae e.V. (FTA) Podcast "Frauen machen MINT"
05 April 2023
With great pleasure Verena Zimmermann was interviewed for the podcast series "Frauen machen MINT" by the external page Femtec.Alumnae e.V. (FTA), a network for motivated and technology-enthusastic women in academia with a background in the STEM sciences. Here, you can listen to the external page podcast on human-centered security and privacy topics.
Globe Magazine: "Der digitale Schatten unserer Gefühle"
14 March 2023
The current issue of the Globe Magazine features an interview conversation with Verena Zimmermann, Joachim Buhmann and Elgar Fleisch on the role of emotions in the area of human-technology interaction and AI. The interview can be read here.
Interview Conversation with the D-GESS WIDE Group
17 January 2023
The interview with the D-GESS WIDE group can be found here.