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20232026
most citedAn Empathy-Based Sandbox Approach to Bridge the Privacy Gap among Attitudes, Goals, Knowledge, and Behaviors

24 citations · 25 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond Oracle Communication: Benchmarking Interactive Intent Alignment Under Miscommunication and Evolving User Intent

Zheyuan Zhang, Mengyuan Chao, Ke Xiao +5

Modern LLM agents increasingly tackle complex tasks through interactive, long-horizon exchanges with users, while existing benchmarks generally assume that users always accurately…

cs.AI2026

UXBench: Measuring the Actionability of LLM-Generated UX Critiques

Wenjie Wang, Yue Huang, Zipeng Ling +11

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as UX judges that inspect interfaces, diagnose usability problems, and propose repairs. Yet no controlled benchmark measures…

cs.CR2026

The Anatomy of Scam Scenarios: Large-Scale Characterization and Conversation-Aware Detection

Shang Ma, Chen Yanai, Avichai Ben +3

Online scams have become a pervasive global threat, causing substantial financial, psychological, and operational harm. Scammers embed psychological techniques (PTs) within reusabl…

cs.AI2026

SpecAlign: Efficient Specification-Grounded Alignment of Large Language Models via Synthetic Data

Wenjie Wang, Yue Huang, Zhengqing Yuan +6

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, alignment is no longer governed by a single universal notion of safety or helpfulness, but ins…

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.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

My Favorite Streamer is an LLM: Discovering, Bonding, and Co-Creating in AI VTuber Fandom

Jiayi Ye, Chaoran Chen, Yue Huang +3

AI VTubers, where the performer is not human but algorithmically generated, introduce a new context for fandom. While human VTubers have been substantially studied for their cultur…

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.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.CR2024

Careful About What App Promotion Ads Recommend! Detecting and Explaining Malware Promotion via App Promotion Graph

Shang Ma, Chaoran Chen, Shao Yang +5

In Android apps, their developers frequently place app promotion ads, namely advertisements to promote other apps. Unfortunately, the inadequate vetting of ad content allows malici…

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…

cs.HC2023★ 24 cited

An Empathy-Based Sandbox Approach to Bridge the Privacy Gap among Attitudes, Goals, Knowledge, and Behaviors

Chaoran Chen, Weijun Li, Wenxin Song +3

Managing privacy to reach privacy goals is challenging, as evidenced by the privacy attitude-behavior gap. Mitigating this discrepancy requires solutions that account for both syst…