Hi, my name is

Yorick Last

About me

I am a PhD candidate conducting research in the field of usable security and privacy at Paderborn University in Germany. More specifically, my work focuses on the usability of digital identity wallets.

What fascinates me is the way we, both as individuals and as a society, interact with technology. How can we design systems that everyone can use to protect their (online) security and privacy? How can we help people make better decisions when it comes to privacy and security? These are the types of questions my work tries to answer.

Besides research, I assist with teaching in several courses on privacy, security, and HCI.


Research interests:

human-computer interaction, digital identities, human-centered design, information security, (online) privacy

Current affiliation

PhD candidate
Human-Centered IT Security (HITS)
Paderborn University 🇩🇪

Education

MSc Information Sciences
Radboud University 🇳🇱

Contact me

Want to connect or collaborate? Feel free to reach out!

Email is generally the fastest way to contact me.

research@yoricklast.eu
Yorick Last

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  • Vision: Towards True User-Centric Design for Digital Identity Wallets

    Yorick Last, Patricia Arias Cabarcos
    February 24th, 2025 | Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) / Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) 2025
  • Digital Dotted Lines: Design and Evaluation of a Prototype for Digitally Signing Documents Using Identity Wallets

    Yorick Last, Jorrit Geels, Hanna Schraffenberger
    May 11th, 2024 | CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • The (Un)suitability of Passwords and Password Managers in Virtual Reality

    Emiram Kablo, Yorick Last, Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Melanie Volkamer
    TBD | arXiv preprint
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