12 papers
"We Wanted to Do Better Than the Law": Exploring UI/UX Designers' Privacy Advocacy in Practice
Keyu Yao, Jinghui Cheng, Jin L. C. Guo
Designers hold primary responsibility for shaping the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of a product. This role goes beyond aesthetics and usability, extending to the pr…
What If We Work Together? Fostering Reflections on Designer Inclusion in Open Source Software Through Speculative Design
Rozhan Hozhabri Nezhad, Jin L. C. Guo, Jinghui Cheng
Open source software (OSS) often prioritizes technical functionality over usability and UX design. This imbalance limits OSS adoption among broader, non-technical users. Key underl…
Putting a Face to the Issue: Fostering User Empathy of Open Source Software Developers With PersonaFlow
Boniface Bahati Tadjuidje, Jin L. C. Guo, Jinghui Cheng
Open-source software (OSS) developers often struggle to understand and respond to user context, while existing tools, such as issue trackers (for handling bugs, requests, and feedb…
How Users Consider Web Tracking When Seeking Health Information Online
Martin P. Robillard, Lihn V. Nguyen, Deeksha Arya +1
Health information websites offer instantaneous access to information, but have important privacy implications as they can associate a visitor with specific medical conditions. We…
Give Users the Wheel: Towards Promptable Recommendation Paradigm
Fuyuan Lyu, Chenglin Luo, Qiyuan Zhang +6
Conventional sequential recommendation models have achieved remarkable success in mining implicit behavioral patterns. However, these architectures remain structurally blind to exp…
Beyond Privacy Labels: How Users Perceive Different Information Sources for Understanding App's Privacy Practices
Varun Shiri, Charles Liu, Keyu Yao +2
Despite having growing awareness and concerns about privacy, technology users are often insufficiently informed of the data practices of various digital products to protect themsel…