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most citedUsers' Mental Models of Generative AI Chatbot Ecosystems

19 citations · 21 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.HC2026

Comparing Human Oversight Strategies for Computer-Use Agents

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Zeya Chen +9

LLM-powered computer-use agents (CUAs) shift users from direct manipulation to supervising an unfolding action sequence, yet existing oversight research mostly evaluates static dec…

cs.SE2026

PriviSense: A Frida-Based Framework for Multi-Sensor Spoofing on Android

Ibrahim Khalilov, Chaoran Chen, Ziang Xiao +3

Mobile apps increasingly rely on real-time sensor and system data to adapt their behavior to user context. While emulators and instrumented builds offer partial solutions, they oft…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Beyond Permissions: Investigating Mobile Personalization with Simulated Personas

Ibrahim Khalilov, Chaoran Chen, Ziang Xiao +3

Mobile applications increasingly rely on sensor data to infer user context and deliver personalized experiences. Yet the mechanisms behind this personalization remain opaque to use…

cs.CR2025

PrivacyMotiv: Vulnerability-Centered Persona Journeys for Empathic Privacy Reviews in UX Design

Zeya Chen, Jianing Wen, Yaxing Yao +2

UX professionals routinely conduct design reviews, yet privacy concerns are often overlooked, not only due to limited tools, but more fundamentally from low intrinsic motivation, d…

cs.HC2025

Dark Patterns Meet GUI Agents: LLM Agent Susceptibility to Manipulative Interfaces and the Role of Human Oversight

Jingyu Tang, Chaoran Chen, Jiawen Li +11

The dark patterns, deceptive interface designs manipulating user behaviors, have been extensively studied for their effects on human decision-making and autonomy. Yet, with the ris…

cs.HC2025

The Obvious Invisible Threat: LLM-Powered GUI Agents' Vulnerability to Fine-Print Injections

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Bingcan Guo +8

A Large Language Model (LLM) powered GUI agent is a specialized autonomous system that performs tasks on the user's behalf according to high-level instructions. It does so by perce…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Toward a Human-Centered Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy LLM-Powered GUI Agents

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Ibrahim Khalilov +7

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation through LLM-powered GUI agents, yet their ability to process sensitive data wi…

cs.HC2025★ 19 cited

Users' Mental Models of Generative AI Chatbot Ecosystems

Xingyi Wang, Xiaozheng Wang, Sunyup Park +1

The capability of GenAI-based chatbots, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, has expanded quickly in recent years, turning them into GenAI Chatbot Ecosystems. Yet, users' understanding of h…

cs.HC2024

CLEAR: Towards Contextual LLM-Empowered Privacy Policy Analysis and Risk Generation for Large Language Model Applications

Chaoran Chen, Daodao Zhou, Yanfang Ye +2

The rise of end-user applications powered by large language models (LLMs), including both conversational interfaces and add-ons to existing graphical user interfaces (GUIs), introd…

cs.HC2024

Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations

Chaoran Chen, Leyang Li, Luke Cao +4

Personalized recommendation systems tailor content based on user attributes, which are either provided or inferred from private data. Research suggests that users often hypothesize…