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Alexander De Luca is affiliated with Google in the United States. Their research contributions are documented within scientific publications and conferences relevant to their field.

Recent work by Alexander De Luca includes the paper titled EFSA and BfR Crisis Preparedness Training on Vector-Borne Disease, published in 2025 in EFSA Supporting Publications. This publication currently has no citations recorded.

Throughout their research career, Alexander De Luca has collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Georgia Gkrintzali
  • Bernard Bottex
  • Ludovica Peli
  • Torsten Herold
  • Philipp Hebel

The sole listed venue for their scholarly output is EFSA Supporting Publications, with a single publication recorded.

Best Publications

  • Touch me once and i know it's you!: implicit authentication based on touch screen patterns

    Alexander De Luca;Alina Hang;Frederik Brudy;Christian Lindner

  • It's a Hard Lock Life: A Field Study of Smartphone (Un)Locking Behavior and Risk Perception

    Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Andreas Fichtner;Alexander De Luca

  • Eye-gaze interaction for mobile phones

    Heiko Drewes;Alexander De Luca;Albrecht Schmidt

  • Patterns in the wild: a field study of the usability of pattern and pin-based authentication on mobile devices

    Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Paul Dunphy;Alexander De Luca

  • Back-of-device authentication on smartphones

    Alexander De Luca;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Ngo Dieu Huong Nguyen;Max-Emanuel Maurer

  • Improving Accuracy, Applicability and Usability of Keystroke Biometrics on Mobile Touchscreen Devices

    Daniel Buschek;Alexander De Luca;Florian Alt

  • Look into my eyes!: can you guess my password?

    Alexander De Luca;Martin Denzel;Heinrich Hussmann

  • Now you see me, now you don't: protecting smartphone authentication from shoulder surfers

    Alexander De Luca;Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Max-Emanuel Maurer

  • Vibrapass: secure authentication based on shared lies

    Alexander De Luca;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Heinrich Hußmann

  • The Anatomy of Smartphone Unlocking: A Field Study of Android Lock Screens

    Marian Harbach;Alexander De Luca;Serge Egelman

  • Evaluation of eye-gaze interaction methods for security enhanced PIN-entry

    Alexander De Luca;Roman Weiss;Heiko Drewes

  • PassShapes: utilizing stroke based authentication to increase password memorability

    Roman Weiss;Alexander De Luca

  • ColorPIN: securing PIN entry through indirect input

    Alexander De Luca;Katja Hertzschuch;Heinrich Hussmann

  • CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems

    Mark Bilandzic;Marcus Foth;Alexander De Luca

  • I Feel Like I'm Taking Selfies All Day!: Towards Understanding Biometric Authentication on Smartphones

    Alexander De Luca;Alina Hang;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Heinrich Hussmann

  • SwiPIN: Fast and Secure PIN-Entry on Smartphones

    Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Alexander De Luca;Bruno Brunkow;Heinrich Hussmann

  • Making graphic-based authentication secure against smudge attacks

    Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Anton Koslow;Alexander De Luca;Heinrich Hussmann

  • Towards understanding ATM security: a field study of real world ATM use

    Alexander De Luca;Marc Langheinrich;Heinrich Hussmann

  • Survival of the Shortest: A Retrospective Analysis of Influencing Factors on Password Composition

    Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Alexander De Luca;Heinrich Hussmann

  • Honey, I shrunk the keys: influences of mobile devices on password composition and authentication performance

    Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Alexander De Luca;Heinrich Hussmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich Hussmann
Heinrich Hussmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Enrico Rukzio
Enrico Rukzio University of Ulm
Florian Alt
Florian Alt Bundeswehr University Munich
Andreas Butz
Andreas Butz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Serge Egelman
Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute
Marcus Foth
Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith University of Bonn
Sebastian Boring
Sebastian Boring Aalborg University
Marc Langheinrich
Marc Langheinrich Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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